Abstract
A generalized derivation of the broadening of powder pattern lines by stacking faults has been carried through allowing for fault planes of arbitrary dimensions. A minimum dimension for the fault plane T min is obtained from the measurable effective particle sizes D e (111) and D e (200). Values of T min of the order of 200 A are obtained for samples of filings of copper, α brass, and silver. The results suggest that, in the drastic cold work involved in filings, the stacking faults tend to extend over rather large distances comparable to the coherent domain dimensions.

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