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- Micrograph no
- 201
- Brief description
- Normalised low carbon steel, showing directionality
- Keywords
- alloy
, carbon, directionality, iron, metal, normalising , steel - Categories
- Metal or alloy
- System
- Fe-C-X
- Composition
- Wrought iron (plain carbon steel)
- Standard codes
- Reaction
- Processing
- Hot wrought normalised 950 ºC
- Applications
- Sample preparation
- Nital
- Technique
- Reflected light microscopy
- Length bar
- 400 μm
- Further information
- Wrought iron contains a very low amount of carbon. The resulting microstructure is therefore virtually all of the ferrite phase, since upon reaching the eutectic temperature virtually all of the austenite will have transformed to ferrite.
The remainder of the microstructure consists of stringers of slag, which are unaffected by normalisation. - Contributor
- Dr R F Cochrane
- Organisation
- Department of Materials, University of Leeds
- Date
- 04/09/02
- Licence for re-use
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