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  1. Karel Drasner

    High carbon steel microsturture ething to highlight martensite on SEM - what etchant to use ?

    Hi everyone, I am trying to etch a japanese shirogami knife steel to investigate martensite morphology. I have pretty good pictures on confocal optical microscope useing standard 1% nital but the surface is to flat for SEM. Best thing would be to desolve the retained austenite. Is there any...

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