Quenching is the process of rapidly cooling a material (usually a metal) in order to obtain desirable mechanical properties like increased strength and hardness. Most people think quenching is just...
Category: Metallurgy
The difference between iron, steel, and cast iron is the amount of carbon present in the material. Pure iron does not have any carbon, steel is any iron alloy with up to 2 weight percent (wt%)...
Alloys are metals made of more than one element. That’s it. As long as the final product behaves like a metal, but it’s not elementally pure, it’s an alloy. There are no special rules about...