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Abstract Foils of some aluminium-based alloys have been given various quenching treatments and the size and distribution of the vacancy clusters observed in an electron microscope. It is concluded that the solute atom trap the vacancies and that their binding energies determine both the male of the clusters and the number of vacancies they contain.
Westmacott et al. (Sat,) studied this question.