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. 2017 Dec 11;7:17337. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-17654-x

Figure 3.

Figure 3

(a) Change in length of the first (ΔL1) and second (ΔL2) tempering steps and their difference versus temperature for a medium carbon steel. (b) Non-isothermal double tempering plot displaying the derivative of the difference between the change in length for the first and second tempering steps with respect to temperature (d(ΔL1–ΔL2)/dT) versus non-isothermal tempering temperature. Both tempering steps were conducted at a heating rate of 2 °C/min. Dotted lines indicate temperatures where tempering reactions of interest occur.