Commercial brass, ~30% Zn, displaying dendritic solidification

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Description:	An good example of dendritic solidification, which occurs when the solidification front becomes unstable with respect to small perturbations. This results in the growth of the perturbations, producing dendrites (from the Greek for tree). The variation in colour across the micrograph indicates that the cooling was sufficiently rapid to prevent solid state diffusion and hence a concentration variation. This phenomenon is known as coring.
Keywords:	alloy • brass • copper • dendrite • metal • zinc
Categories:	Science approaches > Microstructure Materials > Metals & alloys > Copper & alloys Materials > Metals & alloys > Other metals & alloys > Zinc & alloys Testing, analysis & experimentation > Metallography Scale > Micro
Created by:	Dr R F Cochrane, Department of Materials, University of Leeds DoITPoMS, University of Cambridge
Published by:	DoITPoMS, University of Cambridge
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Date created:	04 September 2002
Date added:	21 August 2009
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Resource ID:	1459
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