recalescentadj.
/ˌriːkəˈlɛsnt/, U.S. /ˌrikəˈlɛs(ə)nt/ Materials Science.
Involving or relating to recalescence. Also figurative. recalescent point n. the temperature at which recalescence causes a cooling metal to undergo a temporary slowing or reversal of the rate of cooling.
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1890 Electr. Engineer 19 Sept. 241/1 He believed the exact temperature at which the heated steel was hardened by quenching..would be found to be important. If quenched short of the recalescent point no hardening ensued.
1916 D. K. Bullens Steel & its Heat Treatm. 417 For the majority of heat-treatment work, it is more important to know the location of the decalescent points than that of the recalescent points.
1984 Scripta Metallurgica 18 1329 These lamellar regions are coarser than those..which cooled somewhat rapidly because of the efficient sample-anvil contacts, but without any recalescent heating.
1994 Geist (Vancouver, Brit. Columbia) July–Aug. 30/2 The bouncer..gave me the bum's rush; I found myself on the street again, still holding up my trousers and heartily sick of the recalescent meerschaum.
2004 Jrnl. Synchrotron Radiation 11 169/2 We now consider that it will be possible to study..recalescent re-crystallization.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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