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case-hardening: a stressed condition in seasoned timber characterised by compression in the outer layers accompanied by tension in the core; the result of too severe drying conditions
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

case-hardening: the setting of cone scales as a result of superficial drying,so that they fail to open and discharge their seed
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

hardening: carburizing : the introduction of carbon into the surface by heating to and holding at a suitable temperature usually above the transformation range in contact with a suitable source of carbon. Carburizing is usually followed by direct quenching or by other suitable heat treatment
Category: Iron and steel industries

hardening: the term hardening used without qualification denotes hardening due to the formation of martensitic constituents
Category: Iron and steel industries

hardening: the process that commences at the end of the initial set and indicates the growth in strength of the mortar or concrete.Under good curing conditions,the strength increases rapidly,and one of the properties of concrete is that it will continue to harden for years.Ordinary Portland cement hardens slowly,but rapidhardening cement hardens quickly and its strength in two or three days is as high as that of the former at seven days
Category: Building industry

hardening: cooling down the product from the ice cream freezer in order to freeze most of the water which had not been solidified in the freezer
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

hardening: ..increase in strength of an aluminium allow or a concrete with age, or the brittleness and tensile strength acquired by steel in cold drawing or of a copper pipe or sheet during cold working.
Category: Physics

rapid-hardening: a Portland cement which hardens and gains strength at a faster rate with greater evolution of heat than ordinary cement due to changed chemical composition,degree of burning,and grinding.It contains more lime,is burnt for longer period and is ground finer than the ordinary Portland cement
Category: Building industry

rapid-hardening: has a high tricalcium silicate content which...contributes towards a high early strength.
Category: The chemical industry

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