What about a slowly cooled specimen ?
The alpha precipitates inside the beta grains and on the beta grain boundaries. The alpha appears as long, fat needles in a beta matrix.
There would be much less alpha (if any) if this specimen had been quenched, and more and "rounder" precipitates if slowly cooled (i.e., closer to the equilibrium structure).
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