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The crystallization temperatures and other thermal properties have been measured systematically for two ternary Cu-Ni-P and two quaternary Cu-Ni-Sn-P amorphous systems. The dependence of crystallization temperature on the composition for the four alloy systems can not be described basically by the usual used Naka rule. The Gibbs free energy of crystallization can be calculated for the alloy systems with the model proposed by Shu et al. Using the calculated free energy of crystallization, it is still not possible to properly describe all of the crystallization temperatures of the alloy systems. However, it has been found that the correlation between the crystallization temperature and the content of the alloy systems can be reasonably explained by the nucleation and growth rates of a new phase for the classical theory of phase transformation. It has been established that the classical theory of phase transformation can be used to describe the thermal stability of the Cu-based amorphous alloys during their crystallization process. (C) 1999 Published by Elsevier Science S.A. All rights reserved.