%0 Journal Article %T Precipitation reaction in alpha-Cu-Al-Ag alloys %A Silva %A R.A.G. %A Adorno %A A.T. %A Carvalho %A T.M. %A Magdalena %A A.G. %A Santos %A C.M.A. %J Mat¨Śria (Rio de Janeiro) %D 2011 %I Rede Latino-Americana de Materiais - Latin-American Materials Network %R 10.1590/S1517-70762011000300002 %X the ag-rich precipitates formation reaction in the cu-9.22%at. al-4.66%at. ag, cu-9.31%at. al-5.83%at. ag and cu-9.37%at. al-7.08%at. ag alloys was studied using microhardness change measurements with temperature and time, differential scanning calorimetry (dsc), scanning electron microscopy (sem) and x-ray diffractometry (xrd). the results indicated that the ag-rich phase formation is an interface controlled process with a zero-order mechanism, due to the amount of unsolved ag that makes the precipitation reaction rate independent of ag concentration. %K ag additions %K cu-based alloys %K kinetics. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1517-70762011000300002&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en