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bain⋅ite

[bey-nahyt]
–noun Metallurgy.
an aggregate of iron carbide and ferrite, formed from austenite below the temperature at which pearlite forms and above that at which martensite forms.

Origin:
1930–35; after Edgar C. Bain (1891–1971), American physicist and metallurgist; see -ite 1
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