Meaning of martensitic | Babel Free

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1. Of, containing, or relating to martensite, a certain crystalline structure that can occur in steel under some conditions and can also occasionally occur naturally in meteoric matter or mineral veins.
2. Of or relating to a diffusionless transition of one crystal structure to another generated by coordinated atomic, ionic or molecular displacements over small distances (so named because first studied in martensite).

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“martensitic steel”

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