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Drawing No. EH–MT–016 // Engineering Materials

INCONEL 625 Properties

Reviewed August 2026

INCONEL 625 is a solid-solution-strengthened nickel alloy combining corrosion resistance, weldability and useful strength from cryogenic to elevated temperatures.

UNS N06625 · annealed wrought referenceNickel-chromium-molybdenum-niobium alloyReference data — verify design allowables

Representative properties

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Density
8,440 kg/m³
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Young’s modulus
208 GPa
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Poisson ratio
≈0.28 typical
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Yield strength
460 MPa
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Tensile / comparison strength
880 MPa
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Thermal conductivity
9.8 W/(m·K)
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Specific heat
410 J/(kg·K)
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Thermal expansion
12.8 µm/(m·K)
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Melting / transition temperature
1,290–1,350 °C
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Why this basis matters: The row uses an annealed wrought reference because cold work and specialized 625LCF conditions can raise strength substantially and should not be mixed with standard Alloy 625 values.

What changes these properties?

Engineering variability

  • Strength changes with cold work and product form; 625 is not primarily precipitation hardened like 718.
  • Thermal conductivity is much lower than carbon steel or copper.
  • The approximate Poisson ratio is a typical engineering reference rather than a guaranteed product property.
  • Corrosion performance depends strongly on environment, weld condition and surface state.

Selection note

Used in chemical processing, seawater, pollution-control equipment, aerospace ducting, bellows and high-corrosion piping or components.

Where a property is shown as qualitative rather than numeric, that is intentional: the selected source or the material physics does not justify a single comparable scalar.

How to interpret this material

Stiffness

Young’s modulus describes elastic stiffness. For crystals and composites, orientation can make one scalar modulus only a directional reference.

Strength / failure

Ductile metals can use yield and tensile strength. Brittle ceramics/semiconductors and anisotropic composites require fracture, flexural or directional strength descriptions instead.

Thermal response

Conductivity, heat capacity and expansion are temperature dependent. The last column is a melting or transition descriptor only where that physical concept is appropriate.

Technical sources

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