“…Pack boriding methods present the simplest experimental setup, compared to the other boriding methods, but higher temperatures and longer treatment times are required [14]. Pack boriding has been recently studied in the boriding of titanium-based alloys [14][15][16][17][18][19], steel alloys [6-8, 10, 20-26], cobalt-base alloys [9,[27][28][29][30][31], and nickel-base alloys [32][33][34], and is usually performed using commercial powder mixtures, however, the pack boriding of steel and iron with different powder compositions was previously investigated [2,10,17,19,26,35,36]. The borided layers in carbon and alloyed steels usually have the Fe 2 B single-phase or a two-phase morphology: FeB and Fe 2 B.…”