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adj
Of, containing, or relating to martensite, a certain crystalline structure that can occur in steel under some conditions and can also occasionally occur naturally in meteoric matter or mineral veins.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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adj
Of or relating to a diffusionless transition of one crystal structure to another generated by coordinated atomic, ionic or molecular displacements over small distances (so named because first studied in martensite).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: generalized
Topics: chemistry, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
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History
Etymology tree English martensite Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English martensitic From martensite + -ic.
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