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The authors wish to thank L. Lutterotti for providing
the XRD analysis program. This work was supported
by the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (OTKA)
under Grant No. T 034666. We benefited from a collabo-
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Technology Co-operation Programme. The work was also
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