Reply to "Comment on `Magnetism inAu82.5Fe17.5' "

The description in the preceding Comment [Boumazouza et al., Phys. Rev. B 39, xxxx (1989)] of the Mössbauer-effect spectra for the ${\mathrm{Fe}}_{0.65}$ ${\mathrm{Cr}}_{0.35}$-based amorphous alloy suggests the onset of the hyperfine field at 84 K, but it also shows clearly that at least down to 60 K the hyperfine field is not sufficiently well developed to indicate ferromagnetism. Even if this development to a six-line spectrum is completed below 60 K, the wide temperature range required for this development clearly indicates the presence of superparamagnetic fluctuations and the absence of ferromagnetism between 60 and 84 K. Hence, a clear-cut paramagnetic-to-ferromagnetic phase transition at 84 K, as implied in the Comment, appears not to be compatible with the data described. On the other hand, Boumazouza et al. are fully justified in calling attention to the apparently cooperative change at 84 K, even if it is not sufficiently extensive to result in ferromagnetism.