8. Tuning Carbon Steel

8.1 Keeping Dislocations at Bay

8.1.1 Being a Drag

8.1.2 A Closer Look at the Second Law

8.2 Outwitting the Second Law

8.2.1 Strategies for Winning

8.2.2 Tempering and Ostwald Ripening

8.2.3 It's a Long way to Nirvana

8.3 Hardening Steel - the First

8.3.1 Forming your Battle Line: Solid Solution and Precipitation Hardening.

8.3.2 Size Matters

8.3.3 Bang it!

8.4 Be Cool!

8.4.1 Martensite

8.4.2 Multiculti in Steel

8.4.3 Feeling Stressed?

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