bainite
Americannoun
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an aggregate of iron carbide and ferrite, formed from austenite below the temperature at which pearlite forms and above that at which martensite forms.
noun
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a mixture of iron and iron carbide found in incompletely hardened steels, produced when austenite is transformed at temperatures between the pearlite and martensite ranges
Etymology
Origin of bainite
1930–35; after Edgar C. Bain (1891–1971), American physicist and metallurgist; -ite 1
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