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valuable suggestions and constant help during the writing of the book, to Professor P. V. Gel'd for reading the manuscript and mak ing valuable comments, and also to her colleagues in the Labora tory for the Technology of Inorganic Compounds in the Institute for Problems in Materials Science of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, in particular, to G. N. Makarenko, V. B. Fedorus, o. F. Kvas, and A. V. Tkachenko for assistance in planning the book and reading the manuscript. Contents Chapter I The Structure and Physi- chemical Properties of Carbides. 1 Structures --. -. -. --. 1 Thermodynamic and thermophysical properties 22 Electrophysical and magnetic properties. 30 Physicomechanical properties -. - -. 38 Chemical properties. ---. --. -- 41 Chapter II Methods of Producing Carbides. 51 Chapter ITI Carbides of Metals of Group I -. - 61 Carbides of the alkali metals. -. -. -. - 61 Carbides of metals of the copper subgroup. - - 66 < Chapter IV Carbides of Metals of Group II. 67 Carbides of beryllium, magnesium, and the alkaline-earth metals. -. - - -. -. 67 Carbides of the zinc subgroup. --. -. -. -- 74 ChapterV Carbides of the Transition Metals. 75 Carbides of scandium, yttrium, and the lanthanides. - -. - - -. -. - - -. 75 Carbides of the actinides. -. -. - - - - - - 79 Carbides of metals of subgroup IVa. 97 Carbides of metals of subgroup Va. - -.
