TRANSFORMATION HARDENING. Heat treatment comprising austenitization followed by cooling under conditions such that the austenite transforms more or less completely into martensite and possibly into bainite.
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ULTRA-SONIC TESTING. A nondestructive test applied to sound-conductive materials having elastic properties for the purpose of locating inhomogeneities of structural discontinuities within a […]
SOLID SOLUTION. A single, solid, homogenous crystalline phase containing two or more chemical species.