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111Work hardening — Work hardening, also known as strain hardening or cold working, is the strengthening of a metal by plastic deformation. This strengthening occurs because of dislocation movements within the crystal structure of the material.[1] Any material with… …
112Precipitation hardening — Precipitation hardening, also called age hardening, is a heat treatment technique used to increase the yield strength of malleable materials, including most structural alloys of aluminium, magnesium, nickel and titanium, and some stainless steels …
113Sperm donation — is the provision (or ‘donation’) by a man, (known as a ‘sperm donor’), of his sperm, with the intention that it be used to impregnate a woman who is not usually the man s sexual partner, in order to produce a child. A sperm donor is the natural… …
114Textile printing — is the process of applying colour to fabric in definite patterns or designs. In properly printed fabrics the colour is bonded with the fiber, so as to resist washing and friction. Textile printing is related to dyeing but, whereas in dyeing… …
115Intermediate zone — The Intermediate zone, a term found in Sri Aurobindo s philosophy, refers to what is described as a spiritually dangerous and misleading transitional spiritual and pseudospiritual region between the ordinary consciousness of the outer being and… …
116Nanoionics — Part of a series of articles on Nanoelectronics Single molecule electronics …
117List of Dynasty Warriors characters — There have been 48 playable characters in the Dynasty Warriors series as of the release of Dynasty Warriors 5; however, Dynasty Warriors 7 is has over 60 playable characters. Most of the characters were real figures from the Three Kingdoms era of …
118Reciprocity in network — A lot of theoretical efforts have been made to study the nontrivial properties of complex networks, such as clustering, scale free degree distribution, community structures, etc. Here Reciprocity is another quantity to specifically characterize… …
119Supporting Banpresto original characters — This is a list of original characters created by Banpresto that serve in supporting roles to major protagonists or antagonists in the Super Robot Wars games. EarthlingsAdler KochAdler Koch is a fictional character in the Super Robot Wars series.… …
120Pinning points — In a crystalline material, a dislocation is capable of traveling throughout the lattice when relatively small stresses are applied. This movement of dislocations results in the material plastically deforming. Pinning points in the material act to …
