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Since 1952, Alloy Digest has been the leading reference for materials property data on metals and alloys used throughout the world. Featuring graphs, charts and tables, these sheets give facts and figures on composition or characterization, physical and mechanical properties, heat treatment, and machinability.

GALFAN is a zinc-5% aluminum alloy with an addition of mischmetal to introduce small amounts of the rare-earth elements lanthanum and cerium. Its composition is eutectic and it was developed to provide a hot-dip coating alloy that would be better than zinc as a protective coating for steel. GALFAN can be used to coat steel sheet, strip and wire with only minor modification of the existing equipment used to produce galvanized steel. GALFAN coatings have good performance characteristics in a variety of applications.