Hardness measurements and electron microscopies were made on the cill cast Al-2 to 3% Hf alloys containing 0.1 to 0.5% Si isothermally aged at 350° to 500°C. Si in the alloys accelerates precipitation considerably. The acceleration of age hardening is attributed to the acceleration of nucleation of spherical metastable particles by Si atoms within a grain. Si in the alloys also suppresses entirely the grain boundry reaction. A new kind of intermediate (H) phase is found in the precipitating course from a metastable phase having L1
2 structure to equilibrium one.
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