magnetovolume variations deduced from the thermal expansion data of Roberts, White and Fawcett on Cr and a CrV alloy show the decay of ground state magnetic order in Cr (including short range order above the Néel temperature T N); this decay appears to be partially counteracted by the growth of paramagnetic spin fluctuations in qualitative agreement with spin fluctuation theories of magnetism. The inferred ground-state magnetovolume in Cr is about 0.22%.