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Figure 17. Calculated vertical sections along the composition of SiC:RE = 1:1 for (A) Y-Si-C, (B) Dy-Si-C, (C) Pr-Si-C and (D) La-Si-C. Temperature of the reaction between RE3Si2C2 and SiC at which the liquid phase starts to form is labelled in each diagram. Figure reproduced from Refs.[96,98,99] with permissions from Elsevier and John Wiley & Sons.