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Martensitic

Martensitic meaning

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. | 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).

Example sentences (4)

Depending on the carbon content, the martensitic phase takes different forms.

For example, eutectic reactions, martensitic reactions, and graphitization can cause expansions or contractions.

This destructive galling can be avoided by the use of dissimilar materials for the parts forced together, for example bronze and stainless steel, or even different types of stainless steels (martensitic against austenitic).

This rapid cooling results in a hard but brittle martensitic structure.