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- Micrograph no
- 362
- Brief description
- White cast iron, subject to slow heating and cooling treatment
- Keywords
- alloy , carbon, iron, metal, white cast iron
- Categories
- Metal or alloy
- System
- Fe-C-X
- Composition
- Fe, C 3.4, Si 0.35, Mn 0.22 (wt%)
- Standard codes
- Reaction
- Processing
- Heat white C.I. Heat up 8 hrs, 1060 ºC for 80 hrs, cool for 12 hrs
- Applications
- Sample preparation
- Nital
- Technique
- Reflected light microscopy
- Length bar
- 400 μm
- Further information
- An example of a white cast iron, so named due to its relatively low carbon content, which means that the carbon present is in the form of cementite. Upon cooling the melt initially forms austenite and subsequently graphite. Upon reaching the eutectoid temperature the austenite transforms to pearlite, giving a final microstructure consisting of graphite in a pearlite matrix.
- Contributor
- Dr R F Cochrane
- Organisation
- Department of Materials, University of Leeds
- Date
- 04/09/02
- Licence for re-use
- Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
- Related micrographs
- Micrograph 363: White cast iron, subject to slow heating and cooling treatment (400 μm)
- Micrograph 364: White cast iron, subject to slow heating and cooling treatment (100 μm)
- Micrograph 365: As cast white cast iron (200 μm)
- Micrograph 366: Whiteheart cast iron (400 μm)
- Micrograph 367: Whiteheart cast iron (200 μm)