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Metallurgy
Metal works and production.
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Centrifugal casting
Metals; Metallurgy
A casting made by pouring metal into a mould that is rotated or revolved.
Ceramic tools
Metals; Metallurgy
Cutting tools made from fused, sintered, or cemented metallic oxides.
Chafery
Metals; Metallurgy
A charcoal-fired furnace used in early iron making processes to reheat a bloom of wrought iron for forging to consolidate the iron and expel entrapped slag.
Chamfer
Metals; Metallurgy
(1) A bevelled surface to eliminate an otherwise sharp corner. (2) A relieved angular cutting edge at a tooth corner.
Cleavage plane
Metals; Metallurgy
A characteristic crystallographic plane or set of planes in a crystal on which cleavage fracture occurs easily.
Cleavage
Metals; Metallurgy
Fracture of a crystal by crack propagation across a crystallographic plane of low index.
Cleavage fracture
Metals; Metallurgy
Fracture of a grain, or most of the grains, in a polycrystalline metal by cleavage, resulting in bright reflecting facets.
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