A small Sn content of 0.002% or 0.03% produced a slight increase in the maximum impact value, but the maximum impact value began to decrease at 0.08%Sn content, and drastically lowered to 1.5kgm/cm
2 at 0.11%Sn content. The Sn contents up to 0.03% showed no pronounced effect on the transition temperature. The temperature where impact values began to decrease was lowered slightly at 0.002%Sn content.
A small Pb content, 0.0005%, also produced a slight increase in the maximum impact value. When the Pb content was raised above 0.001%, the maximum impact value decreased remarkably, and at 0.004%Pb content it was as low as 0.9kgm/cm
2. Though the transition temperature was slightly raised by increasing the Pb content up to 0.002%, the temperature where the impact value began to decrease was lowered to some degree at 0.001%Pb content.
The beneficial effect to impact properties of very small contents of Sn or Pb appeared to be due to the increased plastic deformation caused by the segregation of these elements having low melting point at grain boundaries, while the detrimental effect of the relatively large content of these elements was related to the inferior shape of graphite particles.
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