spall

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Temperature of the surface bonding results in very low internal stresses The Surface Alloy is responsible for Tantaline's rugged tantalum surface that will not chip, spall or delaminate www. tantaline.com

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  1. noun A chip, fragment, or flake from a piece of stone or ore.
  2. transitive verb To break up into chips or fragments.
  3. intransitive verb To chip or crumble.

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  • Temperature of the surface bonding results in very low internal stresses The Surface Alloy is responsible for Tantaline's rugged tantalum surface that will not chip, spall or delaminate www. tantaline.com —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • Correlations between spall damage and local microstructure were investigated in multicrystalline copper samples via impact tests conducted with laser-driven plates at low pressures (2 -- 6 GPa). —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Velocity interferometry was used to measure the bulk response of the free-surface velocity of the samples to monitor traditional spall tensile failure and to examine heterogeneities on the shock response due to microstructure variability from sample to sample. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • The shock pressure, dynamic yield strength and spall strength were determined from the measured velocity history via standard hydrodynamic approximations, while the effect of strength was explored via 1D hydrocode calculations. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Because so many of the tombs are located on the traces, the water runs into the tombs destroying wall and ceiling paintings and causing the tomb surfaces to spall or flake off.
 

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  1. Middle English spalle.

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  1. Also spawl; a later form of spald, in part due to spall, n.
  2. Also spawl; from Middle English spalle; a variant of spell, speal, etc., in part due to spall, v.; see spell, and of. spald, spale.
 

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