mar|tens|ite

mar|tens|ite
mar|tens|ite «MAHR tuhn zyt», noun.
a hard, brittle, solid solution of up to 2 per cent of carbon in alpha iron, a constituent of steel which is quenched rapidly.
[< Adolf Martens, 1850-1914, a German metallurgist + -ite1]

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