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Martensite
Type of steel crystalline structure / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the transformation, see Diffusionless transformations.
Martensite is a very hard form of steel crystalline structure. It is named after German metallurgist Adolf Martens. By analogy the term can also refer to any crystal structure that is formed by diffusionless transformation.[1]
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