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Trying to find a desctiptive term

Trying to find a desctiptive term

Trying to find a desctiptive term

(OP)
Email from a customer. He is trying to remember a word he heard about 12 years ago. “It was a new word that I had never heard of before, scientific sounding. He used it in a very similar way to, ‘carbide is a xxx metal, meaning that you can heat it up and then let it cool very slowly or very quickly and it will always be the same hardness’.”

Thomas J. Walz
Carbide Processors, Inc.
www.carbideprocessors.com

Good engineering starts with a Grainger Catalog.

RE: Trying to find a desctiptive term

One option:

xxx = Air hardening

RE: Trying to find a desctiptive term

Carbide, in the sense of a sintered WC composite, doesn't respond at all to heat treatment, I thought? Thus it's a non-hardening alloy, or even a "non-metal, refractory composite material" if he just wants some technobabble.

RE: Trying to find a desctiptive term

(OP)
Not sure what he wants but he is a nice guy and he got me curious.

Tom

Thomas J. Walz
Carbide Processors, Inc.
www.carbideprocessors.com

Good engineering starts with a Grainger Catalog.

RE: Trying to find a desctiptive term

widia

RE: Trying to find a desctiptive term

cermet?
Not sure what someone would call a material that is does not respond to heat treatment.
Though it does that because there are no phase or crystal structure changes.

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RE: Trying to find a desctiptive term

heavy alloy, cermet, radiation shield are some of the names .As the material does not soften at 1000C or has low oxidation potential , the hardness remains unaffected.

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