“…However, these comparisons must be carried out carefully since little variations in characteristics such as material composition, manufacture process, heat treatment, stress or temperature, among others, may lead to high differences in measurements [18,26,27]. Starting with Young's modulus, we can use as reference two main works: [28], which gathers measurements from many other researchers, and [21], which is specially convenient since it provides results for nickel specimens from the same molten material and manufacturing process. Thus, on the one hand, we can find in [28] estimations of elastic modulus between 190 and 210 GPa at demagnetized state and between 215 and 230 GPa at saturation state, these intervals being in accordance with our results; on the other hand, in [23] we find results in even better agreement with ours, with estimations around 213.0 and 218.3 GPa at demagnetized and saturation states, respectively, which perfectly match our measurements for the magnetization curve denoted by M þ r ÀM þ s .…”