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Heusler compound
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English
Etymology
Named after German mining engineer and chemist Friedrich Heusler, who studied such a compound in 1903.
Noun
en chemistry Any of a class of magnetic intermetallic compounds with face-centered cubic crystal structure and a composition of XYZ (half-Heuslers) or X2YZ (full-Heuslers), where X and Y are transition metals and Z is in the p-block. They have applications in spintronics.
en Heusler alloy
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