Abstract
The room temperature Mossbauer spectra of 5 7 Fe were measured for the bcc Fe 0 . 9 4 8 Cr 0 . 0 5 2 solid solution quenched into water being at about 295 K from different temperatures not exceeding 1000 K, i.e. from the temperatures for which probabilities of formation of clear (Schottky) vacancies as well as vacancies forming the separate interstitial-vacancy (Frenkel) pairs are negligibly low. The obtained data were analysed in terms of concentration of unoccupied places in the 14-site surroundings of an 5 7 Fe Mossbauer probe in the sample. It turned out that the concentration of vacancies detected by the probe increases with temperature very rapidly - at the rate of about 10 - 4 K - 1 . The result may suggest that the Mossbauer probe is sensitive to a possible thermal distortion of the lattice or creation of very close Frenkel pairs (the interstitial is the nearest neighbour of the vacant lattice site).
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