The magnetic susceptibilities of polycrystalline Cuix Zn x Ge03 were measured to study the effects of nonmagnetic impurities on the spin-Peierls transition. The transition temperature drastically reduces upon Zn doping and the spin-Peierls state collapses around x=0.03. The Zn doping causes another phase transition in the samples with 0.02
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