Many compounds, such as steels, can contain different atomic rearrangements with slightly different material properties, despite containing the same atoms. Depending on how the material is heat treated and/or quenched, the final microstructure of the material will be different. By using electron microscopy, it is possible to not only qualify what phases are present, how much of each, and how they had form within the material.

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