gamma iron

American

noun

Metallurgy. an allotrope of iron, stable between 910°C and 1400°C and having a face-centered cubic lattice.

gamma iron British

noun

an allotrope of iron that is nonmagnetic and exists between 910°C and 1400°C

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Origin of gamma iron

First recorded in 1895–1900

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gamma iron

Austenite is not nearly as hard as martensite, owing to its content of the soft gamma iron.

From The Working of Steel Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel by Fred H. (Fred Herbert) Colvin

This state in turn persists no higher than 1,706°C., when a softer, non-magnetic "gamma" iron is the stable modification up to the actual melting-point of the metal.

From The Working of Steel Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel by Fred H. (Fred Herbert) Colvin

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