Definitions
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- noun A microscopic crack
- verb To cause the formation of microscopic cracks
Etymologies
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Examples
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"microcrack" as the scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are calling it.
Gizmodo 2010
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"microcrack" as the scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are calling it.
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"microcrack" as the scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are calling it.
Gizmodo 2010
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This is particularly important for a blade designed to cut both woods and metals - absorbing the impacts that would otherwise result in microcrack formation (and when a microcrack grows, it finally results in the loss of a blade's tooth).
Stu's Shed 2010
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I choose to take the intial microcrack induced by the shear bands with intense deformation as the
iMechanica - Comments Min Yi 2010
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One is a leaker where you have a molten silicon just leaks out of the microcrack and molten silicon has the viscosity of water so its catastrophic when that happens and the other is you don't have the purity and remember we are a vertically integrated company, not only in armor but in the solar.
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