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Definition of Embrittles
1. embrittle [v] - See also: embrittle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Embrittles
Literary usage of Embrittles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Metallography of Steel and Cast Iron by Henry Marion Howe (1916)
"It is sometimes denied that crystallization embrittles metal on the ground that,
because metals are crystalline in any event, they cannot become crystalline ..."
2. Metallurgical Laboratory Notes by Henry Marion Howe (1902)
"The purpose of this experiment is to show that heating steel far above its critical
range, even if followed by slow cooling, embrittles it, and the more so ..."
3. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1921)
"... magnesium is very effective in hardening and raising the softening temperature
but it also seriously embrittles the sheet; copper is effective in ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"... it passes readily into the state of pure graphitic carbon, which, in itself
soil and weak, weakens and embrittles the metal as any foreign body would, ..."
5. Johnson's Materials of Construction by John Butler Johnson (1918)
"... manganese, by virtue of its association with iron strengthens, hardens, and
slightly embrittles the brass. Tin also increases hardness. ..."
6. The Manufacture and Properties of Iron and Steel by Harry Huse Campbell (1907)
"The contention that graphite "weakens and embrittles" cast-iron is founded on
the fact that pig-irons containing the same proportion of silicon, ..."
7. The Manufacture and Properties of Iron and Steel by Harry Huse Campbell (1907)
"The contention that graphite "weakens and embrittles" cast-iron is founded on
the fact that pig-irons containing the same proportion of silicon, ..."
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