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Sympathetic Nucleation of Ferrite

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Configurations of ferrite crystals have been found in a plain carbon steel which appear to have resulted from the nucleation of new ferrite crystals at the interphase boundaries of previously formed crystals despite the high carbon concentrations which necessarily develop at these boundaries. This phenomenon has been termed sympathetic nucleation. An attempt has been made to reconcile the occurrence of sympathetic nucleation with current nucleation theory.

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  1. Metals Research Laboratory, Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, Pa., USA

    H. I. Aaronson (Junior Member AIME, Research Metallurgist) & C. Wells (Member AIME, Principal Research Metallurgist)

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TP 4308E. Manuscript, Aug. 29, 1955. Cleveland Meeting, October 1956.

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Aaronson, H.I., Wells, C. Sympathetic Nucleation of Ferrite. JOM 8, 1216–1223 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03377853

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