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  2. Brittleness - Wikipedia

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    Brittle fracture in glass Brittle fracture in cast iron tensile testpieces. A material is brittle if, when subjected to stress, it fractures with little elastic deformation and without significant plastic deformation. Brittle materials absorb relatively little energy prior to fracture, even those of high strength. Breaking is often accompanied ...

  3. Glossary of chemistry terms - Wikipedia

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    Also acid ionization constant or acidity constant. A quantitative measure of the strength of an acid in solution expressed as an equilibrium constant for a chemical dissociation reaction in the context of acid-base reactions. It is often given as its base-10 cologarithm, p K a. acid–base extraction A chemical reaction in which chemical species are separated from other acids and bases. acid ...

  4. Intermetallic - Wikipedia

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    Intermetallic compounds are generally brittle at room temperature and have high melting points. Cleavage or intergranular fracture modes are typical of intermetallics due to limited independent slip systems required for plastic deformation. However, some intermetallics have ductile fracture modes such as Nb–15Al–40Ti.

  5. Embrittlement - Wikipedia

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    Embrittled pinch roller. Embrittlement is a significant decrease of ductility of a material, which makes the material brittle.Embrittlement is used to describe any phenomena where the environment compromises a stressed material's mechanical performance, such as temperature or environmental composition.

  6. Salt (chemistry) - Wikipedia

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    In chemistry, a salt or ionic compound is a chemical compound consisting of an assembly of positively charged ions and ... and are hard and brittle.

  7. Glass transition - Wikipedia

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    The glass–liquid transition, or glass transition, is the gradual and reversible transition in amorphous materials (or in amorphous regions within semicrystalline materials) from a hard and relatively brittle "glassy" state into a viscous or rubbery state as the temperature is increased. [2]

  8. Liquid metal embrittlement - Wikipedia

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    The brittle fracture theory of Stoloff and Johnson, [14] Westwood and Kamdar [15] proposed that the adsorption of the liquid metal atoms at the crack tip weakens inter-atomic bonds and propagates the crack. Gordon [16] postulated a model based on diffusion-penetration of liquid metal atoms to nucleate cracks which, under stress, grow to cause ...

  9. Friability - Wikipedia

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    Friability testing is a laboratory technique used by the pharmaceutical industry to test the durability of tablets during transit. This testing involves repeatedly dropping a sample of tablets over a fixed time, using a rotating wheel with a baffle.