Table 1.

Chemical composition of Mg and Mg–6Ag presented as weight %. Ag = silver; Al = aluminum; Cu = copper; Fe = iron; Mg = magnesium; Ni = nickel.

	Chemical composition in weight %
	Mg	Ag	Fe	Cu	Ni	Al
Mg	99.94	<0.00005	0.0048–0.0049	0.0002–0.0003	<0.0002	0.013–0.016
Mg–6Ag	≈94	5.94–6.34	0.0019–0.0021	0.0013–0.0014	0.009–0.0010	<0.0100