Migration in foils was measured at 0 to 100C by using an electrochemical time-lag method (table 90). A modified strain model indicated that the tetrahedral sites in body-centered cubic lattices had to be assumed to be stable positions for dissolved H. Elementary jumps, from one tetrahedral site to the next, passed directly through a tetrahedral plane. This model described qualitatively the experimental results, with respect to the order of the activation energies for H diffusion in these metals.

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Table 90

Parameters for H and D Diffusion in Nb at 0 to 100C