Microstructures
by George Langford, Sc.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 1966
Copyright©
2005 by George Langford
Non Ferrous Alloys - Lesson 3 - Fourth specimen
Tin bronze at 50X
Here we have a tin bronze which was cast and then annealed at a low temperature.

The upper photomicrograph was made at 50X.
The one below, at 200X.

Do you see anything unusual ?
Tin bronze at 200X
The veined structure in the dendrite cores may be due to precipitation of a tin-rich phase during the annealing step.






Next is Specimen 5.