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Definition of Coarsening
1. coarsen [v] - See also: coarsen
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coarsening
Literary usage of Coarsening
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)
"Grain coarsening by Overheating Weakens More than it Softens.— My preliminary
experiments, while confirming the general observation that long high heating, ..."
2. Metallurgy; an Introduction to the Study of Physical Metallurgy: An by Walter Rosenhain (1914)
"In such a material the effect of prolonged annealing upon the resulting structure
can only be of one kind, viz., the coarsening of the structure by an ..."
3. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1918)
"Howe calls "natal coarsening." It is evident that such coarsening must be natal,
ie, born during the transformation from gamma to non-gamma iron. ..."