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Effect of purity on the temper brittleness of improved structural steels

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The data considered indicate that reversible temper brittleness does not occur in high-purity steels (with no impurities). In terms of their embrittling effect, impurities can be arranged in the following decreasing order: antimony, phosphorus, tin, arsenic. Sulfur, oxygen, and nitrogen do not induce susceptibility to reversible temperbrittleness. The effect of the impurities depends to a substantial extent on the alloying of the steel.

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  1. A. P. Gulyaev
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Central Scientific-Research Institute of Ferrous Metallurgy. Translated from Metallovedenie i Termicheskaya Obrabotka Metallov, No. 10, pp. 42–46, October, 1971.

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Gulyaev, A.P., Taran, A.V. Effect of purity on the temper brittleness of improved structural steels. Met Sci Heat Treat 13, 844–848 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00713820

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