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noun
A standard test for determining the impact resistance of materials, using a pivoting arm that is released from a specific height to strike a sample.
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History
Named after the English engineer Edwin Gilbert Izod (1876–1946), who described it in his 1903 address to the British Association, subsequently published in Engineering.
