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Micrograph no
377
Brief description
As cast white cast iron
Keywords
alloy Link to MATTER Glossary entry for alloy, carbon, iron, metal, white cast iron Link to MATTER Glossary entry for white cast iron
Categories
Metal or alloy
System
Fe-C-X   Link to phase diagram
Composition
Fe, C 3.56, Si 0.20, Mn 0.37, Cr 0.91 (wt%)
Standard codes
Reaction
Processing
as cast
Applications
Sample preparation
Nital
Technique
Reflected light microscopy
Length bar
100 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
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
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