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The ability of a material to be hammered or rolled into thin sheets without breaking describes this property.
Difficulty: Easy- Brittleness
- Malleability
- Elasticity
- Viscosity
In steel heat treatment, this very hard phase forms when austenite is cooled too rapidly for carbon atoms to diffuse out.
Difficulty: Medium- Pearlite
- Martensite
- Bainite
- Cementite
This electron microscopy technique in SEM determines crystal orientation by analyzing diffracted electron patterns from tilted samples.
Difficulty: Hard- EDS
- EBSD
- TEM
- STEM
Glass, brick, and porcelain belong to this category of typically hard, brittle materials formed at high temperatures.
Difficulty: Easy- Metals
- Polymers
- Ceramics
- Semiconductors
This carbon allotrope consists of rolled sheets of graphene forming cylindrical nanostructures with exceptional strength.
Difficulty: Medium- Carbon nanotubes
- Fullerenes
- Carbon black
- Glassy carbon
This phenomenon describes the growth of larger precipitates at the expense of smaller ones to reduce total interfacial energy.
Difficulty: Hard- Ostwald ripening
- Spinodal decomposition
- Discontinuous precipitation
- Cellular precipitation
Plastics, rubber, and nylon are examples of this material class made of long chain-like molecules.
Difficulty: Easy- Metals
- Ceramics
- Composites
- Polymers
This process uses an electric current to deposit a thin layer of metal onto a conductive surface.
Difficulty: Medium- Galvanizing
- Anodizing
- Chemical vapor deposition
- Electroplating
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