PHYSICAL AND THERMAL PROPERTIES OF GROUP IV CARBIDES

In this section and the next three, the properties and characteristics of the interstitial carbides of Group IV are reviewed and compared with those of the host metals, the corresponding interstitial nitrides, as well as those of another refractory group the borides of the Group IV metals. The values given are those for composition as close to stoichiometry as possible. 

As mentioned in Ch. 3, Sec. 8.1, interstitial carbides are essentially non-stoichiometric compounds and the variations in the reported property values often found in the literature reflect this characteristic. The values given here are an average, 

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