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- Micrograph no
- 317
- Brief description
- Fe, C 0.9 (wt%) steel, hypereutectoid, quenched
- Keywords
- alloy
, carbon, iron, martensite
, metal, quenching
, steel
- Categories
- Metal or alloy
- System
- Fe-C-X
- Composition
- Fe, C 0.9 (wt%)
- Standard codes
- Reaction
- Processing
- Quenched
- Applications
- Sample preparation
- Nital
- Technique
- Reflected light microscopy
- Length bar
- 200 μm
- Further information
- A high carbon steel that has been quenched producing martensite laths in the microstructure. High carbon steels are more prone to the formation of martensite since more excess carbon is available to be trapped interstitially.
- Contributor
- Dr R F Cochrane
- Organisation
- Department of Materials, University of Leeds
- Date
- 04/09/02
- Licence for re-use
Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales
- Related micrographs
- Micrograph 313: Fe, C 0.9 (wt%) steel, hypereutectoid, quenched and tempered (400 μm)
- Micrograph 314: Fe, C 0.9 (wt%) steel, hypereutectoid, quenched and tempered (200 μm)
- Micrograph 315: Fe, C 0.9 (wt%) steel, hypereutectoid, quenched and tempered (100 μm)
- Micrograph 316: Fe, C 0.9 (wt%) steel, hypereutectoid, quenched (400 μm)
- Micrograph 318: Fe, C 0.9 (wt%) steel, hypereutectoid, quenched (100 μm)