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47.
Free carbon in iron makes the metal
soft and gives a coarse grained crystalline structure
soft and gives a fine grained crystalline structure
hard and gives a coarse grained crystalline structure
hard and gives a fine grained crystalline structure
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Rushikesh said:   10 years ago
Free carbon only possible when decomposition of cementite. It decompose into Fe (ferrite) + graphite as free carbon.

Student1 said:   9 years ago
Free carbon makes the iron hard and brittle (fine-grained crystal structure).

Bhanu Pratap said:   9 years ago
The correct answer should be [c].

Manish said:   9 years ago
The Answer should be C.

Abhilash Sawant said:   9 years ago
Carbon increases hardness and corrosiveness also.

Dhotre Ganesh said:   8 years ago
Cementite (hard & brittle) decomposes into ferrite (soft) and graphite.

Sathia said:   8 years ago
Presence of Carbide in iron only makes it harder, in this case for, free carbon in iron, iron becomes softer and increases coarse grained crystalline structure, hence this results also in increased tensile strength.

This case is true for nodular cast iron.

Vicky said:   6 years ago
I think the correct answer is C.

Nikunj Paji said:   5 years ago
C is the correct answer.

Rajkotha said:   4 years ago
Combined carbon form of iron-hard and gives a fine-grained crystalline structure.

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