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LITTLE data has, as yet, been published concerning the spacings of retained austenite in iron–carbon alloys when the quenched sample contains the quantity of carbon ascribed to the saturation point E (1.776 per cent carbon at 1,145° C.) shown in the iron–carbon diagram. The only data as yet found refer to samples of plain carbon steel (1 mm. in diameter) containing 1.74 per cent of carbon and quenched at 1,130° C., for which the authors1 give a = 3.613 and 3.624 A. The first of the samples, according to the authors, was decarburized.
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See Epstein, S., “The Alloys of Iron and Carbon”, 1, “Constitution” (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1936).
Wrazej, W. J., J. Iron and Steel Inst., July 1946.
Wrazej, W. J., Nature, 163, 212 (1949).
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WRAZEJ, W. Spacings of Retained Austenite in Quenched White Cast Iron. Nature 165, 447–448 (1950). https://doi.org/10.1038/165447a0
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