Which outcome occurs when annealing stainless steel fails to control cooling rates within set material-specific tolerances?

💡 Explanation

Excessively slow cooling encourages chromium to react with carbon along grain boundaries via increased intergranular carbide precipitation, because of shifting equilibrium constants versus rapid cooling. Therefore, sensitization occurs rather than maintaining corrosion resistance at those temperatures.

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