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Cementite
A compound of iron and carbon known as Iron carbide, which has the approximate chemical formula Fe3C containing 6. 69% of carbon. Hard and brittle, it is the hard constituent of cast iron, and the normal form in which carbon is present in steel. It is magnetizable, but not as readily as ferrite.
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