SLACK QUENCHING. The incomplete hardening of steel due to quenching from the austenitizing temperature at a rate slower than the critical cooling rate for the particular steel, resulting in the formation of one or more transformation products in addition to martensite.
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TOTAL CARBON. The sum of the free and combined carbon (including carbon in solution) in a ferrous alloy.