Definitions for cementite

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cementite ce·ment·ite

Spelling: [si-men-tahyt]

IPA: /sɪˈmɛn taɪt/

Cementite is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 144 anagrams from letters in cementite (ceeeimntt).

Definitions for cementite

noun

1. an iron carbide, Fe 3 C, a constituent of steel and cast iron, sometimes with part of its iron replaced by another metal, as manganese.

Origin of cementite

First recorded in 1885-90; cement + -ite¹

Examples for cementite

The white-hot, solid, but soft mass is now a conglomerate of “primary” austenite, “eutectic” austenite and “eutectic” cementite.

The change from graphite into cementite is supposed to take place as we pass from left to right.

Ferrite and cementite, already described in 10, are the final products of the transformation of austenite in slow-cooling.

Lastly, there is a definite compound of iron and carbon, iron carbide or cementite, having the formula Fe3C.

Here the mass consists of primary austenite, eutectic austenite and cementite interstratified and pro-eutectoid cementite.