มาร์เทนไซท์(maa-ten-sái)

Meanings

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martensite (hard steel microstructure)

a very hard microstructure in steel and some alloys, formed by rapid quenching from high temperature; carbon is trapped in a body-centered tetragonal lattice

Examples

This knife is very hard because the steel used to make it has a martensite structure.
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