Austenite Definition

ôstə-nīt
noun
A nonmagnetic solid solution of iron and another alloying element, usually assumed to be carbon unless otherwise specified, used in making corrosion-resistant steel.
American Heritage
A nonmagnetic solid solution of carbon or iron carbide in some iron, obtained in high carbon steels by rapid quenching and deformation at high temperatures.
Webster's New World

A solid solution or carbon or ferric carbide in iron that exists in steel at high temperatures.

Wiktionary
(metallurgy) Alternative spelling of austenite.
Wiktionary
A fan or admirer of Jane Austen; someone who studies the works of Jane Austen.
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Other Word Forms of Austenite

Noun

Singular:
austenite
Plural:
austenites

Origin of Austenite

  • After Sir William Chandler Roberts- Austen (1843–1902), British metallurgist

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Austen +‎ -ite (“follower or adherent of a specified person”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Austen +‎ -ite (“rock, mineral, or fossil”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Named after William Roberts-Austen (1843-1902).

    From Wiktionary

Austenite Sentence Examples

  • These freezing-point curves and transformation curves thus divide the diagram into 8 distinct regions, each with its own specific state or constitution of the metal, the molten state for region 1, a mixture of molten metal and of solid austenite for region 2, austenite alone for region 4 and so on.

  • Austenite, gamma ('y) iron.-Austenite is the name of the solid solution of an iron carbide in allotropic y-iron of which the metal normally consists when in region 4.

  • On cooling into region 6 or 8 austenite should normally split up into ferrite and cementite, after passing through the successive stages of martensite, troostite and sorbite, Fe 0 C= Fe 3 C +Fe(i 3).

  • But this change may be prevented so as, to preserve the austenite in the cold, either very incompletely, as when high-carbon steel is " hardened," i.e.

  • The important manganese steels of commerce and certain nickel steels are manganiferous and niccoliferous austenite, unmagnetic and hard but ductile.

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