C30B 15/203
The relationship of pull rate to axial thermal gradient
Official title: {the relationship of pull rate (v) to axial thermal gradient (G)}
C30B15/203 (The relationship of pull rate to axial thermal gradient) appears on 231 US grants and 244 published applications in this corpus.
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