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Old 10-07-2011, 07:52 PM
Doug Lester Doug Lester is offline
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You have the case where retained austinite in steel will spontaniously convert to untempered martensite when exposed to some stress, like the shock of chopping. As far as brass goes, I really haven't read much about it's metallurgy to comment.

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