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A simple expression for the heat of formation of transition-metal alloys is derived with-in the tight-binding approximation that has the form =f (N) N^2, where N and are the average and difference in number of valence d electrons, respectively. The prefactor f (N) is most negative for N lying near the middle of the series and it becomes positive towards the edges. The theory gives good agreement with Miedema's semiempirical values of.
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