“…X-ray powder diffraction analysis showed hexagonal zirconium diboride as well as faint lines which could be ascribed to cubic ZrC. Uncombined carbon was sought by the dissolution method of Kriege (20), but none was found. These observations, together with the nature of the reported high-temperature phase diagrams (29), le$i us to assume that all the carbon (plus the minor amounts of oxygen and nitrogen) in the specimens was present in the cubic phase as (Zr,Hf) (0,C,N).…”