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Heat-treatment of steel using molten-salt baths

Photographs courtesy of Hector Pous-Romero, who went to Summitglow in Sheffield to heat treat steel samples. The red-hot salt is for the autenitisation treatment, followed by quenching and then tempering in the lower-temperature salt bath.

heat treatment of steel in molten-salt bath, metallurgy, Hector Pous-Romero, University of Cambridge, steels, Phase transformations and complex properties research group,summitglow, sheffield

 heat treatment of steel in molten-salt bath, metallurgy, Hector Pous-Romero, University of Cambridge, steels, Phase transformations and complex properties research group,summitglow, sheffield
heat treatment of steel in molten-salt bath, metallurgy, Hector Pous-Romero, University of Cambridge, steels, Phase transformations and complex properties research group,summitglow, sheffield

 heat treatment of steel in molten-salt bath, metallurgy, Hector Pous-Romero, University of Cambridge, steels, Phase transformations and complex properties research group,summitglow, sheffield
heat treatment of steel in molten-salt bath, metallurgy, Hector Pous-Romero, University of Cambridge, steels, Phase transformations and complex properties research group,summitglow, sheffield

 heat treatment of steel in molten-salt bath, metallurgy, Hector Pous-Romero, University of Cambridge, steels, Phase transformations and complex properties research group,summitglow, sheffield
heat treatment of steel in molten-salt bath, metallurgy, Hector Pous-Romero, University of Cambridge, steels, Phase transformations and complex properties research group,summitglow, sheffield

 heat treatment of steel in molten-salt bath, metallurgy, Hector Pous-Romero, University of Cambridge, steels, Phase transformations and complex properties research group,summitglow, sheffield
heat treatment of steel in molten-salt bath, metallurgy, Hector Pous-Romero, University of Cambridge, steels, Phase transformations and complex properties research group,summitglow, sheffield

 heat treatment of steel in molten-salt bath, metallurgy, Hector Pous-Romero, University of Cambridge, steels, Phase transformations and complex properties research group,summitglow, sheffield
heat treatment of steel in molten-salt bath, metallurgy, Hector Pous-Romero, University of Cambridge, steels, Phase transformations and complex properties research group,summitglow, sheffield

 heat treatment of steel in molten-salt bath, metallurgy, Hector Pous-Romero, University of Cambridge, steels, Phase transformations and complex properties research group,summitglow, sheffield
heat treatment of steel in molten-salt bath, metallurgy, Hector Pous-Romero, University of Cambridge, steels, Phase transformations and complex properties research group,summitglow, sheffield

 heat treatment of steel in molten-salt bath, metallurgy, Hector Pous-Romero, University of Cambridge, steels, Phase transformations and complex properties research group,summitglow, sheffield
heat treatment of steel in molten-salt bath, metallurgy, Hector Pous-Romero, University of Cambridge, steels, Phase transformations and complex properties research group,summitglow, sheffield

 heat treatment of steel in molten-salt bath, metallurgy, Hector Pous-Romero, University of Cambridge, steels, Phase transformations and complex properties research group,summitglow, sheffield







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