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10-23 10.14 (a) Superheating and supercooling correspond, respectively, to heating or cooling above or below a phase transition temperature without the occurrence of the transformation. (b) These phenomena occur because right at the phase transition temperature, the driving force is not sufficient to cause the transformation to occur. The driving force is enhanced during superheating or supercooling. Excerpts from this work may be reproduced by instructors for distribution on a not-for-profit basis for testing or instructional purposes only to students enrolled in courses for which the textbook has been adopted. Any other reproduction or translation of this work beyond that permitted by Sections 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act without the permission of the copyright owner is unlawful. 10-24 Isothermal Transformation Diagrams 10.15 We are called upon to consider the isothermal transformation of an iron-carbon alloy of eutectoid composition. (a) From Figure 10.22, a horizontal line at 675°C intersects the 50% and reaction completion curves at about 80 and 300 seconds, respectively; these are the times asked for in the problem statement. (b) The pearlite formed will be coarse pearlite. From Figure 10.30(a), the hardness of an alloy of composition 0.76 wt% C that consists of coarse pearlite is about 205 HB (93 HRB). Excerpts from this work may be reproduced by instructors for distribution on a not-for-profit basis for testing or instructional purposes only to students enrolled in courses for which t