Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
Cryptic Alloys and Microstructure Enigma
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
- 2. Solid phase formed to harden alloys—no weather involved
- 4. The hard quenched phase resembling a German scientist’s legacy
- 8. Conduit of current in metallurgy’s arc, not just a battery part
- 9. Magnetic phase of iron with a body-centered frame
Down
- 1. Process turning carbides into globular shapes for ductility’s sake
- 3. Heat treatment that cools the fire of hardness with balance
- 5. Directional dependence often betrays this non-isotropic trait
- 6. Measuring material’s slow deformation under stress, time’s trial
- 7. Face-centered cubic phase, named for a pioneer’s state of mind
- 10. Rapid cooling, the metallurgist’s way to trap strength
- 11. Element’s polymorphs playing multiple structural roles
- 12. Branching solidification patterns like frozen lightning
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