Micrograph 215 and full record
- Micrograph no
- 215
- Brief description
- Normalised carbon steel
- Keywords
- alloy , carbon, eutectoid reaction , iron, metal, pearlite , steel
- Categories
- Metal or alloy
- System
- Fe-C-X
- Composition
- Fe, C 0.08 (wt%)
- Standard codes
- Reaction
- Processing
- Normalised
- Applications
- Sample preparation
- Nital
- Technique
- Reflected light microscopy
- Length bar
- 400 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. Micrograph was taken transverse to direction of casting, therefore no directionality is seen.
- 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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