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Micrograph no
202
Brief description
Normalised low carbon steel, showing directionality
Keywords
alloy Link to MATTER Glossary entry for alloy, carbon, directionality, iron, metal, normalising Link to MATTER Glossary entry for normalising, steel Link to MATTER Glossary entry for steel
Categories
Metal or alloy
System
Fe-C-X   Link to phase diagram
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
200 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
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
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