embrittlement
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7.9
- noun
- /ɛmˈbrɪtəlmənt/
- Specialized
- This material can only be used up to approximately 800 degrees F (427 degrees C) for temper embrittlement concerns, wherein the material loses its ductility and fracture toughness.
Examples
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The service temperature of these disks is maintained below 750 degrees F (400 degrees C) through the use of cooling air to minimize in-service temper embrittlement.
Academic text (1995) -
This is the premature initiation of cracking and embrittlement of a plastic due to the simultaneous action of stress, strain, and contact with specific fluids.
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Both of those are leaking basically due to the embrittlement of metal pipes.
Blog text (25) -
There is a potential problem with embrittlement of parts from contact with pure hydrogen, but the authors predict that it can be overcome.
Academic text (2001) -
Chemical metal embrittlement.
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So again, ductility versus embrittlement is the is the interplay between slip and fracture.
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Following embrittlement, the malignant item can be ingested subsequently by filter feeders and cycled back up the food chain.
Academic text (2005) -
Once these animals have died and decomposed, the bottle caps return to the environment, where they may continue to be ingested by other animals, thus continuing to jeopardize populations until their embrittlement.
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Researchers are exploring a variety of issues: hydrodynamics of hydrogen-air mixtures, the combustion of hydrogen in the presence of other gases, and the embrittlement of materials by exposure to hydrogen, for example.
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High temperatures and relative humidity accelerate the chemical processes that lead to embrittlement in materials.
Synonyms
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5.4
Hard and breaks easily, like glass
Antonyms
How Brittle
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Morphology
Etymology
Embrittlement comes from the prefix em- meaning 'make', the root brittle meaning 'easily broken', and the ending -ment that shows a process. So embrittlement is the process of a material losing its flexibility and becoming easy to break.