For everyone concerned with the technology and application
of metals and alloys and with the development of new
metallic materials, a detailed knowledge of phase equilibria
is indispensable. Also, information on the thermodynamical
and crystallographical data of the systems under
investigation is essential, and often metastable crystalline
phases as well as quasicrystalline or amorphous alloys are
of interest. Volume IV/5 therefore presents all these data.
Because of the large amount available of experimental
evidence and thermochemical calculations, a presentation in
one volume, as it was realized several decades ago in the
widely used book of M. Hansen "Aufbau der
Zweistoff-Legierungen" proved to be impossible. So volume
IV/5 had to be divided into several subvolumes which cover -
in alphabetical order - all binary systems of importance.
Subvolume IV/5c, the third of the series, deals with the
systems Ca-Cd ... Co-Zr. Further subvolumes will follow
shortly.

Assisted by: K. Schäfer