The slow cooling float zone method for the phase research
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Ref.2. Phase relation in the ternary system ZrO2-Al2O3-SiO2 by the slow cooling float zone method. I. Shindo et al., Advances in Ceramics / Volume 12; Science and Technology of Zirconia II The America Ceramic Society, Inc., Columbus, Ohio 1984 p. 181