Which risk increases when molten steel exits a blast furnace?

💡 Explanation

The rapid cooling causes **martensitic transformation**, which increases the steel's hardness, but also embrittles it because the crystal structure changes rapidly. Therefore, a quench leads to surface cracking, rather than embrittlement from elemental contaminants at lower levels.

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