| CPC C22C 19/056 (2013.01) [B33Y 70/00 (2014.12)] | 19 Claims |

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1. A nickel-based alloy composition consisting, in weight percent, of: 1.0 to 3.5% aluminium, 0.0 to less than 3.0% titanium, 0.0 to 6.0% niobium, 0.0 to 4.9% tantalum, 0.0 to 5.4% tungsten, 0.0 to 4.0% molybdenum, 8.9 to 30.0% cobalt, more than 15.0% to 20.6% chromium, 0.02 to 0.35% carbon, 0.001 to 0.2% boron, 0.001 to 0.5% zirconium, 0.0 to 5.0% rhenium, 0.0 to 8.5% ruthenium, 0.0 to 4.6 percent iridium, 0.0 to 0.5% vanadium, 0.0 to 1.0% palladium, 0.0 to 1.0% platinum, 0.0 to 0.5% silicon, 0.0 to 0.1% yttrium, 0.0 to 0.1% lanthanum, 0.0 to 0.1% cerium, 0.0 to 0.003% sulphur, 0.0 to 0.25% manganese, 0.0 to 6.0% iron, 0.0 to 0.5% copper, 0.0 to 0.5% hafnium, the balance being nickel and incidental impurities, wherein the following equations are satisfied in which WNb, WTa, WTi, WMo, WAl, WRe and WRu are the weight percent of niobium, tantalum, titanium, molybdenum, aluminium, rhenium and ruthenium in the alloy respectively
4.2≤(WW+0.92WRe+1.58WRu)+WMo
WAl+0.5WTi+0.3WNb+0.15WTa≤4.0
and
3.0≤WAl+0.5WTi+1.5(0.3WNb+0.15WTa).
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