The stacking-fault energy for magnesium was re-calculated by using a slightly more rigorously derived equation. The value obtained, 102mJ/m2, was less than the value of 125mJ/m2 quoted by Hales, Smallman and Dobson (1968).

On the Stacking-Fault Energy Determined from Dislocation Loop Growth in Magnesium. H.P.Leighly: Philosophical Magazine, 1970, 22[175], 209-12