| 11. | Tin tends rather easily to form hard, brittle intermetallic phases, which are often undesirable.
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| 12. | Additional time above liquidus may cause excessive intermetallic growth, which can lead to joint brittleness.
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| 13. | Metals which can form intermetallic compounds by an exothermic reaction are another class of candidate materials.
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| 14. | A heat treatment then causes interdiffusion of the metals and formation of the required intermetallic compound.
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| 15. | Such intermetallic growth, together with thermal cycling, can lead to failure of the bonding wires.
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| 16. | Bismuthides are not even wholly ionic; they are intermetallic compounds containing partially metallic and partially ionic bonds.
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| 17. | Boron can form intermetallic compounds and alloys with such metals of the composition M " n"
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| 18. | It is an intermetallic compound, meaning that it has properties intermediate between an ionic compound and an alloy.
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| 19. | These intermetallic alloys appear homogeneous in crystal structure, but tend to behave heterogeneously, becoming hard and somewhat brittle.
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| 20. | The fact that nitinol is an intermetallic is largely responsible for the difficulty in fabricating devices made from the alloy.
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