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Both methods give 0.85 ± 0.02 eV for the activation energy in high purity irradiated specimens. The activation energies for quenched, and quench-plus-irradiated specimens of comparable purity are found to be 0.85 + 0.03 eV and 0.86 + 0.02 eV respectively, agreeing with the value for the irradiated specimens within the experimental error. Somewhat lower values are obtained for specimens of lower purity. Second order kinetics are obeyed in the main part of the Stage III annealing for the irradiated, quench-pius-irradiated and quenched specimens. Various models are discussed to explain Stage III annealing. It is concluded that vacancy migration in Stage III with interstitial clusters acting as sinks can account for the observed results most satisfactorily in the case of gold.","abstract_html":"Gold specimens of nominal 99.9999% purity were irradiated with 3 MeV electrons near liquid nitrogen temperature. 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Various models are discussed to explain Stage III annealing. 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