Micrograph 358 and full record
- Micrograph no
- 358
- Brief description
- White cast iron, annealed to precipitate out carbon
- Keywords
- alloy , carbon, cast iron , iron, metal, normalising
- Categories
- Metal or alloy
- System
- Fe-C-X
- Composition
- Fe, C 2.4, Si 1.1, Mn 1.1 (wt%)
- Standard codes
- Reaction
- Processing
- J5 annealed 60 hrs at 900-20 ºC
- Applications
- Sample preparation
- Nital
- Technique
- Reflected light microscopy
- Length bar
- 800 μm
- Further information
- A cast iron with a relatively low carbon content. The sample has been normalised at 900 ºC for 72 hours. This causes the carbon in the pearlite to precipitate out, leaving graphite in a ferritic 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
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