| 单词 | blue shortness |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblue shortness blue shortness n. Metallurgy (now rare) = blue brittleness n.; cf. red-shortness n. at red-short n. and adj. Derivatives. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > steel > [noun] > brittleness blue shortness1886 blue brittleness1911 temper-brittleness1918 1886 Minutes Proc. Inst. Civil Engineers 84 123 The admixture [of manganese] is, of course, necessary on account of the red-shortness of pure Bessemer or Siemens ingot-iron; but it is also possible that blue-shortness (if this expression is permissible) is due to the presence of this substance. 1920 Sci. Amer. Monthly Mar. 251/2 This ‘ageing’..takes place more quickly with a rise in temperature, so that it may even develop in fractions of a second and so cause the phenomenon of blue-shortness. 1993 Internat. Jrnl. Pressure Vessels & Piping 53 514 The blue shortness is observed at 200 °C and the creep deformation appears at 400 °C. < as lemmas |
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