Abstract
The rapid loss of straightforward ferromagnetism for small substitutions of Al on Fe sites in CeFe2 has been studied by AC susceptibility measurements with and without small superposed steady fields. A fall in magnetic response at low temperatures like that of re-entrant spin glasses is already present at 1% substitution, by 3.5% the ferromagnetic divergence is greatly reduced and by 8% it has disappeared to leave only spin-glass behaviour. Possible origins of this behaviour, which is related to that of alloys with other elements, and the possible relevance of recent work on other RFe2 phases are discussed.
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