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Metallurgy
Metal works and production.
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Fatigue
Materials science; Metallurgy
The concept of fatigue is very simple, when a motion is repeated, the object that is doing the work becomes weak. For example, when you run, your leg and other muscles of your body become weak, not ...
Porosity
Materials science; Metallurgy
Solid materials have pores in them, sometimes these pores are almost microscopic in size, and sometimes they're very visible. Porosity is a measure of how much air or liquid can be absorbed by ...
Stacking Faults
Materials science; Metallurgy
All crystals whose structures can be described by layers are prone to stacking faults. A stacking fault is any defect that alters the periodic sequence of layers. These defects may be a wrong layer ...
Vacancy
Materials science; Metallurgy
A vacancy is a lattice position that is vacant because the atom is missing. It is created when the solid is formed. There are other ways of making a vacancy, but they also occur naturally as a result ...
Optical Materials
Education; Knowledge
A material which is transparent to light or to infrared, ultraviolet, or x-ray radiation, such as glass and certain single crystals, polycrystalline materials (chiefly for the infrared), and ...
Partial Dislocations
Materials science; Metallurgy
In the original concept of Volterra, the Burgers' vector of a crystal dislocation is a translation vector of the crystal, that is, a vector that connects atom positions so that the crystal can be ...
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