martensitic

English

Etymology

martensite +‎ -ic

Adjective

martensitic (comparative more martensitic, superlative most martensitic)

  1. Of or pertaining to the mineral martensite
  2. (physics, chemistry) Describing a diffusionless transition of one crystal structure to another generated by coordinated atomic, ionic or molecular displacements over small distances (first studied in the mineral)
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