Spinodal decomposition causes a modulation in the lattice spacing and lattice chemistry, and hence in the scattering factor. The intensity and position of the satellites about the Bragg peaks is influenced by these effects. Depending on the composition only, the modulation in the scattering factor provides a contribution to the satellite intensity. Nevertheless, the modulation in lattice spacing leads to contributions to the satellite intensity which depend on the amplitude and wavelength of the composition. Therefore, when both effects occur the satellites are complex diffuse phenomena [1]. Decomposition of supersaturated solid solutions within the spinodal region of the equilibrium diagram produces fluctuations in the elastically soft directions in the crystal. Sidebands are produced in spinodal alloys with contributions from both the scattering factor variation [2] and the lattice parameter variation [3,4]. In this study sidebands in spinodal Cu-Ni-Cr alloys and lattice parameters inquiries were investigated and compared with values from previous studies.In order to obtain all nominal compositions, pure copper (99.999%), nickel (99.9%) and chromium (99.9%) were melted in a vacuum arc-furnace. Chemical analysis of the alloys by X-ray energydispersive analysis showed the actual compositions to be (wt%): . After casting and checking the composition, the cast buttons were solution-treated and rapidly quenched as defined in [5,6].Heat treatments were carried out in a vertical tube furnace. The temperature within the hot zone of the furnace was controlled to an accuracy of +5 °C. Ageing times from 5 min to 3 weeks were employed and after the ageing all specimens were rapidly quenched into iced water. After the heat-treatments the specimens were examined by electron microscopy and X-ray diffraction as described in [5,6].In the early stages of ageing, the characteristics of spinodal decomposition observed in the X-ray diffraction and in the electron microscope were sidebands in the X-ray diffraction, a periodic structure in the electron micrographs and a constant wavelength (z).In order to carry out sideband analysis in X-ray diffraction, step-scans were made from 47 to 54 ° of 20. The scanning speed was 0.25 ° min -1 . This region of 20-space covered both the sidebands and the 2 0 0 Bragg peak. The 200 peak was used because it supplied the best combination of intensity and 338 sideband resolution. To obtain sidebands under these conditions, all alloys were scanned and sidebands were observed in all alloys. Sidebands were observed in the range 300-600 °C in the 2.5Cr and 5Cr asymmetrical alloys, and at 300-800 °C in the 10Cr and 15Cr symmetrical alloys (Fig. 1). However, sidebands were not very clear at 500-600 °C in the 5Cr alloy, at 800 °C in 10Cr and at 600 and 800 °C in 15Cr alloy. The reason for this might be due to no fitness of the combination of intensity and sideband resolution in the (200) peak for these alloys for particular temperatures. Similar sideband analyses were carried out by Rao et al. [7][8][9] fo...