“…There is only a small contraction of interatomic distances around these sites which are usually partially occupied [except for IT(B)I of alloy 7]. In this respect, and in the loss of cubic symmetry, the Cu-AI alloys 6 and 7 are quite distinct from the transition-metal defect y brasses NisCd4o, PtsCd4o, CusNiZn36 and PdsCd43 which are primitive cubic y brasses and have 4, 4, 3 and 1 vacant atom sites, respectively (Ljung & Westman, 1970;Arnberg, 1980;Sarah, Rajasekharan & Schubert, 1981). Ordering of the atoms in these phases takes various forms but in all cases the vacancies are confined wholly to the IT(A) sites, which in NisCd40 and PdsCd40 are fully vacant, accompanied by a partial collapse of cluster A.…”