[Studies on the dental gold-alloys (13). Precipitation hardening in gold-cobalt alloys (author's transl)].

The precipitation of cobalt from gold-rich solid solution was studied about Au-Co binary alloys containing less than 5 wt.% cobalt by correlating the results of metallographic observation and micro-hardness measurement to electrical resistivity measurements. The hardness curves of the alloys showed to hardness peaks after isothermal ageing below a certain temperature. It was considered that the first peak was due to formation of G. P. zone which was confirmed by reversion phenomenon. The second peak was due to growing of metastable cobalt rich precipitate. The maximum hardness obtained by ageing was higher in Au-5 wt.% Co alloy than in Au-1 wt.% Co alloy. Difference in growing mechanism of metastable precipitate was deduced from the kinetics data and the values of time exponent obtained by Johnson-Mehl equation.