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THE volume before us is an able work, containing much original matter, in which an attempt is made with considerable success to reconcile the theory of the physical chemist with the practice of the scientific metallurgist. The author is obviously impressed with the broad reality of the iron-carbon equilibrium diagram. No doubt this has some value, but its teachings are very limited from a practical point of view. For instance, the area usually marked in such diagrams “martensite,” instead of “hardenite,” gives no indication that steel quenched at the lower end of the range is good, and at the upper end worthless, a matter of some little importance to the steel maker.
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ARNOLD, J. Recent Researches on Cast Iron 1 . Nature 89, 169 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/089169a0
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