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Micrograph 210 and full record

- Micrograph no
- 210
- Brief description
- As cast carbon steel
- Keywords
- alloy
, carbon, eutectoid reaction
, iron, metal, pearlite
, steel
- Categories
- Metal or alloy
- System
- Fe-C-X
- Composition
- Fe, C 0.2 (wt%)
- Standard codes
- Reaction
- Processing
- Cast
- Applications
- Sample preparation
- Nital
- Technique
- Reflected light microscopy
- Length bar
- 200 μm
- Further information
- Low carbon steel with a microstructure consisting mostly of ferrite with the darker pearlite regions around the ferrite grains. Upon cooling the steel the ferrite forms initially, either on austenite grain boundaries or inclusions. This causes carbon to be partitioned into the austenite. Eventually the remaining austenite will be at the eutectoid condition and the transformation to pearlite will then take place.
- 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
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