Differential thermal analysis and microscopy were made on hypereutectic white cast iron heated at constant rates. The hypereutectic iron is graphitized further easily than the hypoeutectic iron, because “frozen in” carbon microgroups easily play a role of nucleous for graphite. Endothermic, exothermic and endothermic reactions are found on the differential thermal analysis curves in a temperature range from 1,125°C to 1,140°C. These reactions are stronger and more complicated than those in hypoeutectic iron. This phenomenon is caused by easiness of cementite graphitization, solution (diffusion) of cementite in the mosaic-structure (
γ and cementite) at about 1,125°C, precipitation of graphite from
γ saturated with respect to cementite, and resolution of cementite into carbon-deficient
γ at about 1,140°C. Primary cementite acts as sources of deposited graphite and solvent (
γ) of cementite.
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