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cementation

/see-muhn-tey-shuhn, -men-, sem-uhn-/US // ˌsi mənˈteɪ ʃən, -mɛn-, ˌsɛm ən- //UK // (ˌsiːmɛnˈteɪʃən) //

胶结,胶合剂,胶结作用,固结

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act, process, or result of cementing.
    • : Metallurgy. the heating of two substances in contact in order to effect some change in one of them, especially, the formation of steel by heating iron in powdered charcoal.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as incoherence

Examples

  • If the cementation be continued too long, the steel acquires a darkish fracture, it is more fusible, and incapable of welding.

  • It is conveyed into reservoirs containing pieces of old iron; the sulphate is thus decomposed into copper of cementation.

  • It is covered with black blisters, like steel of cementation; whence it has got the name of blistered copper.

  • This is an easy way of making cast-steel without previous cementation of the iron.

  • By a blast so tempered at the beginning, the ore gets well calcined, and partially reduced in the way of cementation.