The electrical resistivity of nickel and its alloys

Abstract

The electrical resistivity has been measured over the temperature range 1 °K to 120 °K in dilute alloys of nickel with Pd, Cu, Co, Fe, Mn, Cr, V and Ti. The impurity (residual) resistivity is very small for alloys of nickel with its near neighbours in the periodic table, Pd, Cu, Co, Fe and Mn, but is an order of magnitude greater for alloys containing Cr, V and Ti. The ice-point values of the deviations from Matthiessen's rule are unusually large in the Ni-Co, Ni-Fe, Ni-Mn, and Ni-Cr alloys, somewhat smaller in the Ni-Cu, Ni-V and Ni-Ti alloys, and negligible in Ni-Pd.