| 11. | Similarly, the austenite structure receives its name from steel alloys of a similar structure.
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| 12. | The carbon no longer fits within the FCC austenite structure, resulting in an excess of carbon.
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| 13. | Quenching involves heating the steel to create the austenite phase then quenching it in water or oil.
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| 14. | By applying strain, the austenite undergoes a phase transition to martensite without the addition of heat.
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| 15. | When the edge cools fast a diffusionless transformation occurs, turning the austenite into very hard martensite.
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| 16. | Upon cooling a hypoeutectoid steel from the austenite transformation temperature, small islands of proeutectoid-ferrite will form.
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| 17. | For instance, when steel is heated above the upper critical-temperature, small grains of austenite form.
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| 18. | When austenite is cooled extremely slow, it will form large ferrite crystals filled with spherical inclusions of cementite.
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| 19. | The magnetic shape memory effect occurs in the low temperature austenite phase where the elementary cells have cubic geometry.
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| 20. | Above this temperature the face-centred cubic form of iron, austenite ( gamma-iron ) is stable.
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