Excellent! You know all the good stuff!!
The focus of my work is NbC precipitation strengthening of microalloyed (pipeline) steels.
I do some vicker's hardness testing for my research, but due to different cooling trends & different microstructures I can't conclude too much from the VHN. I am dissolving steel samples to determine how much Nb is still in solution, and how much has formed a precipitate.
Can we call you the Man of Steel, then, or is that title taken?
I don't think we went into that much depth--it was an intro course.
The lecture professor was an idiot, but the lab portion was really informative...8^)
NbC--Niobium Carbide. 105 grams per mole...8^)
So is the precipitate being measured in milliters or in moles?