sorbitization
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Noun[edit]
sorbitization (countable and uncountable, plural sorbitizations)
- (metallurgy) The process of sorbitizing, especially in the hardening of metal by interrupted quenching.
- 1960, Aleksandr Mikhaĭlovich Samarin, Contemporary problems of metallurgy, page 501:
- During 1951-1952, experiments were made on quenching (sorbitization) of entire lengths of rail at the Kuznetsk Metallurgical Combine.