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Engineering Terms Glossary

Category: N

Term: Nucleus

Description: The first structurally stable particle capable of initiating recrystallization of a phase or the growth of a new phase, and possessing an interface with the parent matrix. The term is also applied to a foreign particle that initiates such action.

Date: Aug 25, 2009

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