The nuclei of eutectic graphite are not determinate though many investigators have researched on inoculation mechanism of cast iron. Among them CaC
2 theory published by B. Lux in 1964 has many supports of it. On this point, we have considered that the nuclei of graphite must be cristobalite which is first formed as vitreous SiO
2 from Si involved in almost all inoculants in molten iron and then crystallized under the existence of Ca. In this work the relation between Ca and inoculating effect was investigated. When pure Ca was inoculated as compared with typical inoculants, Ca-Si and Fe-Si, it had an obvious inoculating effect. So it was considered that SiO
2 suspended in molten iron was crystallized with the catalytic action of Ca, and it worked as the heterogenious nuclei of eutectic graphite. Then next, inoculation experiments were done by using molten iron whose concentration of Si was so low that SiO
2 could not exist thermodynamically. Consequently Ca-Si had a stable inoculating effect, but Ca didn't. From the fact above, it was proved that CaC
2 has no inoculating effect, and Ca has an inoculating effect through the crystallization of SiO
2 due to its catalytic action.
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