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Fracture Surface

I accidentally dropped an old sash window balance weight. The weight is rough cast iron and broke cleanly leaving a nice macro example of a cat iron brittle fracture.

It took me back half a century to when I was an enthusiastic student of Metallurgy.

'Eye of the Beholder' for Macro Mondays

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Uploaded on April 29, 2019
Taken on April 29, 2019