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We have studied a high-purity manganese sample provided by the Exhibition–Collection of Extrapure Substances, operating on the basis of the Devyatykh Institute of Chemistry of High-Purity Substances, Russian Academy of Sciences, and analyzed for the concentration and trace levels of 59 elemental impurities. The content of the major component in it was 99.9993 wt %. Its growth surface was formed by intergrown and individual single crystals, from which samples for lattice parameter measurements were cut. Precision measurements were performed at room temperature (298 ± 1 K) over the entire Ewald sphere on an XCalibur four-circle diffractometer (Rigaku-Oxford Diffraction). The lattice parameters of single-crystal samples selected for measurements were determined using high-angle reflections. The unit-cell dimension of our samples turned out to exceed those reported previously by different groups for poly- and monocrystalline manganese samples.
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We are grateful to academician M.F. Churbanov for helpful discussions and to I.L. Kommel’ and L.I. Ivanov for their assistance in the preparation and selection of the samples for the X-ray diffraction measurements.
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This work was supported through the research theme no. 304-19 (All-Russia Research Institute of Metrological Service Federal State Unitary Enterprise) and by the Russian Federation Ministry of Science and Higher Education (state research target for the Devyatykh Institute of Chemistry of High-Purity Substances, Russian Academy of Sciences, research plan).
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Kodess, B.N., Lazukina, O.P., Volkova, E.N. et al. Impurity Composition and Lattice Parameters of High-Purity α-Mn. Inorg Mater 56, 512–517 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0020168520050076
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