Different heating process affect the microstructure of the steel in different ways. Thus, imparting different properties to the steel. For example, annealing is done is done to impart softness to steel, hardening is done to hardened the steel( eg: carburizing, nitriding, cyaniding) whereas tempering is done to improve the ductility of the steel.
Steel mainly contains iron and carbon. This percentage of carbon and iron decides the property of the steel. It is the % of carbon which is altered in different heating process that to obtained the desire microstructure in steel.
An intensive property does not change when you take away
some of the sample. The procedures that a student could use to examine the
intensive property of a rectangular block of wood are the hardness, color,
density and molecular weight.
