True, but its not just water, in a water bath either, and the cooling happens in seconds to lock the composition and molecular structure of the steel.
As I said before, the article doesn’t go into enough detail, to make a decision on the process or structure one way or another. While I’m skeptical, I’ll take the article’s word that it is better, and a breakthrough.
If it is in fact a breakthrough we’ll probably see it in the industry in the next few years as it wouldn’t take much to modify current processes to his from what little description is given.
Contact: Suresh Babu, (614) 247-0001; Babu.13@osu.edu
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