Standard tensile specimens were cast from a nickel-base partial denture casting alloy and subsequently fractured in a tensile stress testing machine. Fracture sites were subjected to scanning electron microscopy in order to determine the exact mechanism by which failure had occurred. A metallographic examination of prepared specimens was used to demonstrate the distribution of phases within the alloy.
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