Year: 2025

Glossary of technical terms for the use of metallurgical engineers Terms starting with alphabet ‘O’

Glossary of technical terms for the use of metallurgical engineers Terms starting with alphabet ‘O’ Objective – It is an optical element that gathers light from an object being observed and focuses the light rays from it to produce a real image of the object. Objectives can be a single lens or mirror, or combinations of several optical elements. They are used in microscopes, binoculars, …

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Glossary of technical terms for the use of metallurgical engineers Terms starting with alphabet ‘N’

Glossary of technical terms for the use of metallurgical engineers Terms starting with alphabet ‘N’ Nabarro–Herring creep (NH creep) – It is a mechanism of deformation of crystalline materials (and amorphous materials) which occurs at low stresses and held at high temperatures in fine-grained materials. In Nabarro–Herring creep, atoms diffuse through the crystals, and the rate of creep varies inversely with the …

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