Meaning Of The Word Martensite

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martensite in American English
a very hard, brittle, solid solution of iron and carbon or the carbide of iron, Fe3C, into which hot steel turns when suddenly chilled by cold water
noun: a metastable microconstituent of any of various forms of carbon steel, produced by undercooling sufficiently below the normal transformation temperature, esp. a hard, brittle product of the decomposition of austenite, produced in this way

martensite in British English
noun: a constituent formed in steels by rapid quenching, consisting of a supersaturated solid solution of carbon in iron. It is formed by the breakdown of austenite when the rate of cooling is large enough to prevent pearlite forming

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