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/sɪˈmɛntʌɪt/ A hard and brittle carbide of iron, Fe3C.
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1888 H. M. Howe in Engin. & Mining Jrnl. 18 Aug. 132 Minerals which compose iron. Name suggested here..Cementite. Iron with cement carbon.
1888 H. M. Howe in Engin. & Mining Jrnl. 25 Aug. 154/1 Cementite..appears to be intensely hard, brilliant, homogeneous, structureless carbide of iron, containing the whole of the cement carbon.
1889 Nature 14 Nov. 37/2 Prof. Howe, of Boston,..even suggests mineralogical names, such as ‘cementite’, ‘perlite’, ‘ferrite’, for the various associations of carbon and iron.
1922 C. H. Desch Metallogr. (ed. 3) xvii. 373 The carbide, cementite, Fe3C, is the only compound of carbon and iron which has yet been recognized by microscopical means.
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