Glossary

• Alloy
• Alpha
• Angstrom
• Anisotropic
• at%
• Austenite
• BCC
• Beta
• Binary Alloy
• Binary Phase Diagram
• Body Centred Cubic
• Brinell Hardness
• Carburising
• Case Carburising
• Cementite
• Coring
• Coring Diagram
• Decarburisation
• Decarburised Zone
• Dendrite
• Dendrite Diagram

• Eutectic
• Eutectic Line
• Eutectic Phase
• Eutectic Point
• Eutectic Reaction
• Eutectic Tie Line
• Eutectoid
• Eutectoid Line
• Eutectoid Phase
• Eutectoid Point
• Eutectoid Tie Line
• Face Centred Cubic
• Favourable Nucleation Site
• FCC
• Ferrite
• Ferritic Steel
• Gamma
• Grain
• Grain Boundary
• Heterogeneous
• Homogeneous

• Hypereutectic
• Hypereutectoid
• Hyporeutectic
• Hyporeutectoid
• Intermetallic Compound
• Interstitial
• Lamellae
• Lamellar
• Lamellar Microstructure
• Lath
• Lever Rule
• Liquidus
• Liquidus Line
• Metallic Alloy
• Metallic Dendrite
• Micrograph
• Micron
• Microstructure
• Nucleation
• Pearlite
• Peritectic

• Phase
• Phase Boundary
• Phase Diagram
• Plain Carbon Steel
• Primary Solid
• Proeutectoid
• Rolled Steel Joist
• Single Solidification Point
• Solid Solution
• Solid Solution Strengthening
• Solidus
• Solubility Limit
• Solubility Line
• Specimen Preparation
• Stoichiometric
• Theta
• Tie Line
• wt%
• Zero Solid Solubility