metallographic love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to metallography.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Pertaining to, or by means of, metallography.

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to metallography

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Examples

  • At U. S. Steel's 203,000-square-foot technology center, engineers sit in front of rows of computers in the metallographic lab, where physical metal properties are examined under microscopes.

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  • As for analysis of the steel from the buildings “… using metallographic analysis, NIST determined that there was no evidence that any of the samples had reached temperatures above 600C.”

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  • As a laboratory technician, he is responsible for processing metals, testing aluminium products, ensuring quality, entering information into the database, and conducting metallographic examinations.

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  • So his firm beefed up its technical services department and instituted such strict quality control measures as physical, chemical, and metallographic analyses.

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  • Standard metallographic techniques that compare samples with published atlases of alloy microstructures were unable to determine the carbon contents of Viking-age swords.

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  • The electron microscope receives only a brief mention because at the time the manuscript was written the metallographic technique for this instrument was still being rapidly developed and, except for particle-size determinations, the instrument had not yet achieved the status of a widely accepted tool in metallographic or crystallographic research.

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