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On cooling molten pure iron, it solidifies at 1539 °C into a body-centred cubic structure. On further cooling, this structure changes at 1400 °C to a face-centred cubic structure and again at 910 °C back to body-centred cubic. These structures have been designated α, γ, and δ from room temperature upwards.
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Pascoe, K.J. (1978). The Iron-carbon System. In: An Introduction to the Properties of Engineering Materials. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7068-0_8
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