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sorbitisation

sorbitisation is the alternative form of sorbitization.

Meaning of sorbitization

Noun

sorbitization (countable and uncountable, plural sorbitizations)

  1. The process of sorbitizing, especially in the hardening of metal by interrupted quenching.
    • During 1951-1952, experiments were made on quenching (sorbitization) of entire lengths of rail at the Kuznetsk Metallurgical Combine.1960, Aleksandr Mikhaĭlovich Samarin, Contemporary problems of metallurgy, page 501

Forms of sorbitisation

pluralsorbitisations

Questions about sorbitisation

What is sorbitisation the alternative form of?
Sorbitisation is the alternative form of sorbitization.

Words near sorbitisation in the dictionary

  1. sorbitan
  2. sorbitans
  3. sorbite
  4. sorbites
  5. sorbitic
  6. sorbitisation
  7. sorbitisations
  8. sorbitise
  9. sorbitised
  10. sorbitises
  11. sorbitising

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