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The stress-induced transformation of single crystals of Ni-Mn-Ga ferromagnetic Heusler ordered alloys to new martensitic structures has been investigated. The intermartensitic transformations, whenever they occur, were registered during heating by calorimetry, dilatometry and magnetic susceptibility measurement, showing up a step-like strain recovery, small endothermal effects, and an abrupt change of the low-field magnetic susceptibility. During intermartensitic transformations, between modulated and unmodulated lattices, as well as during the final transformation to the parent austenitic phase, noticeable anomalous changes in the specific magnetization were observed.

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