“…This includes the excess nitrogen dissolved in the ferrite matrix due to the expansion of the ferrite matrix by the precipitate-strain field, the so-called mobile excess nitrogen; 37,38 (iii) adsorbed/segregated nitrogen: due to the usually nano-sized nature of the nitride precipitates and the corresponding, very large, coherent precipitate/matrix interfacial area, considerable nitrogen can be adsorbed at the precipitate–matrix interfaces; this is the so-called immobile excess nitrogen. 37,38 In order to quantitatively describe the nitriding process (see, e.g., Schacherl et al , 38 Meijering, 39 van Landeghem et al , 40 Selg et al , 41 and Jung et al 42 ), knowledge of the respective amounts of excess nitrogen is required. Previous analyses of absorbed nitrogen of types (i–iii) have been performed in Hosmani et al , 17 Podgurski et al , 22 Biglari et al , 25 Jack, 43 Podgurski and Davis, 44 Hosmani et al , 45 Hosmani et al , 46 Jung et al 47 .…”