Metallurgy

Metallurgy

Metal works and production.

Industry: Metals; Materials science

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dead flat

Metals; Metallurgy

Perfectly flat. As pertaining to sheet, strip or plate. Refer to Stretcher Leveling.

cutting speed

Metals; Metallurgy

The linear or peripheral speed of relative motion between the tool and work piece in the principal direction of cutting.

cyaniding

Metals; Metallurgy

Surface hardening of an iron-base alloy article or portion of it by heating at a suitable temperature in contact with a cyanide salt, followed by quenching.

cup fracture

Metals; Metallurgy

A type of fracture in a tensile test specimen which looks like a cup having the exterior portion extended with the interior slightly depressed.

cube-centered

Metals; Metallurgy

Metallography- (concerning space lattices) - Body-centered cubic. Refers to crystal structure.

The formation of crystals by the atoms assuming definite positions in a crystal lattice. This is what happens when a liquid metal solidifies. (Fatigue, the failure of metals under repeated stresses, ...