On the Formation of Growth Twins in Electrodeposited Silver

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Nucleating Ability of Grain Boundaries During Electrodeposition

“…The presence of two or more t w i n boundaries in materials possessing face-centered or diamond-centered structures can produce a self-per-petuating system of r e -e n t r a n t grooves. For silver, therefore, it is not surprising that multiple t w i n boundaries have been observed in dendrites grown from fused salt electrolytes (4-7) and aqueous electrolytes (8)(9)(10)(11).…”

“…After silver soldering to copper wire for electrical connection, each cathode was mounted in a cold setting resin. The samples were then ground, mechanically polished down to 1/4~ diamond paste, chemically polished using the solution of Gilpin and Worzala (12), and then etched to produce grain boundary grooves using the solution of Kilner and Plumtree (13). These silver cathodes were placed in a specially constructed cell, 2 cm deep by 3 cm in diameter, designed to fit u n d e r the objective lens of a Zeiss photomicroscope.…”