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Heat Tinting of Titanium and Titanium Alloys

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Color etching is an advanced technique used in metallography to identify microstructural characteristics in a material, such as phase transformations, grain orientations and surface contamination. Heat tinting is a type of color etching and can be used on a variety of materials to identify certain features. This article describes a laboratory technique for heat tinting titanium and titanium alloys.

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    Derek Barnes

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This paper is based on Derek Barnes’ poster entry to the 2016 International Metallographic Contest, entitled “Heat Tinting Used for Identification of Titanium and Titanium Alloy Phases.” This entry won First Place in Class 1—Light Microscopy, All Materials, and was the recipient of the DuBose-Crouse Award. This award recognizes unique, unusual, and new techniques in microscopy and is open to entries from Classes 1, 2, and 3 in the International Metallographic Contest.

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Barnes, D. Heat Tinting of Titanium and Titanium Alloys. Metallogr. Microstruct. Anal. 5, 536–539 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13632-016-0320-y

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