“…Specimens made of powder steel 50Ni2Mo with a porosity of P & 5 per cent were used as a test material. The specimens were made by double pressing and sintering of mixed powders of iron, graphite ($0.54 mass%), nickel ($2.0 mass%), and molybdenum ($0.3 mass%), with a supplement of zinc stearate, at 1200 Q in a continuous furnace, in a dissociated ammonia atmosphere, within 2 h. Carbon content in the specimens was estimated by the chemical analysis of witness specimens and, indirectly, by a magnetic two-parameter method, by measuring the coercive force of the specimens in view of their porosity [6,7].…”