Definitions for cementations

cementations ce·men·ta·tion

Spelling: [see-muh n-tey-shuh n, -men-, sem-uh n-]
IPA: /ˌsi mənˈteɪ ʃən, -mɛn-, ˌsɛm ən-/

Cementations is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 1368 anagrams from letters in cementations (aceeimnnostt).

Definitions for cementations

noun

  1. the act, process, or result of cementing.
  2. 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.

Origin of cementations

First recorded in 1585-95; cement + -ation

Examples for cementations

The progress of the cementation is discovered by drawing a test bar from an aperture in the side.

It seems probable that the Ancients did part gold and silver by cementation.

After cementation the plate is heated to a certain temperature and is then plunged into an oil bath in order to toughen it.

That it refers to cementation at all hangs by a slender thread, but it seems more nearly this than anything else.

But steel of cementation, however carefully made, is never quite equable in its texture.

He was familiar with amalgamation, cupellation, the separation of gold and silver by cementation with salt and by nitric acid.

He also gives the method of parting with antimony and sulphur, and by cementation with common salt.

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

The most common method of forming steel is by the process of cementation.

The product obtained by this method is known as cementation steel.

Word Value for cementations
Scrable

15

Words with friends

19

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