Nanocrystalline Fe–C alloys produced by ball milling of ...
Ball milling of each powder mixture was conducted in an argon atmosphere for 100 h. In order to separate graphite not alloyed with iron the powders were immersed after ball milling into diiodomethane (CH 2 I 2) which has a higher density ( g cm −3) than graphite (– g cm −3) but a lower one than iron ( g cm −3).