A study is made of the anisotropy of the properties of tungsten single crystals for equivalent crystallographic orientations relative to the growth axis. An essential difference in the interplanar spacings for samples with equivalent faces perpendicular and parallel to the growth axis was found. For the compared equivalent planes differences in the positron annihilation parameters were observed which point to an anisotropy of the Fermi surface caused by carbon atoms with an anisotropic electron configuration. The sublimation energy for equivalent faces is also shown to be anisotropic.
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