The five single crystal elastic constants of gadolinium, terbium and erbium have been measured within the temperature range 4.2–300 K. Contributions to the elastic constants due to domain and spin rotation effects were reduced and in some cases eliminated altogether by applying a magnetic field 2.5 T along the magnetic easy directions.
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