Heating the Hypo-eutectoid steels to 30°C above the upper critical
temperature line, soaking at that temperature and then cooling slowly to the
room temperature to form a pearlite & ferrite structure is called
(A) Tempering
(B) Hardening
(C) Annealing
(D) Normalising

1 Answer

Answer :

Option C

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