White Cast Iron – IspatGuru
May 14, 2014· The structure of white cast iron consists of pearlite and ledeburite, a eutectic mixture of pearlite (converted from austenite) and cementite. Cementite is hard and brittle and dominates the microstructure of white cast iron. Thus, white cast iron is hard and brittle and has a white crystalline fracture because it is essentially free of graphite.