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When sintered iron with a certain porosity (14–20%) is saturated with nitrogen, the amount of absorbed N2 and the depth of the nitride layer increase jumpwise. If we regard the porous material as a biphase mixture (of pores and iron particles), such a phenomenon can be associated with the jumpwise increase of the effective diffusion coefficient at a certain quantitative ratio of the phases (the so-called percolation effect of diffusion). When porous iron is nitrided, a peculiar morphological form of the nitride phases forms in the diffusion layer; this, in distinction to the acicular nitrides, which are typical of the nitriding of compact iron, has a comparatively equiaxial shape and sinuous phase boundaries.
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Translated from Poroshkovaya Metallurgiya, No. 4(340), pp. 24–28, April, 1991.
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Gorbach, V.G., Meshashti, S. & Moskalenko, Y.N. Formation of nitride phases in the nitriding of porous iron. Powder Metall Met Ceram 30, 283–286 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00795957
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