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- Micrograph no
- 372
- Brief description
- As cast white cast iron
- Keywords
- alloy
, carbon, iron, metal, white cast iron - Categories
- Metal or alloy
- System
- Fe-C-X
- Composition
- Fe, C 3.62, Si 0.33, Mn 0.38, Cr 0.89 (wt%)
- Standard codes
- Reaction
- Processing
- as cast
- 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 dendrites and ledeburite. The dendrites then transform to pearlite, and the ledeburite to ferrite and cementite.
- Contributor
- Dr R F Cochrane
- Organisation
- Department of Materials, University of Leeds
- Date
- 04/09/02
- Licence for re-use
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