Meanings
nounmaraging (uncountable)
- uncountablesteel-makingA process that produces a tough, malleable form of steel (maraging steel) by means of heat treatment and precipitation hardening.
At the core of the new centrifuge design is a thin, tubelike rotor made of carbon fibers rather than maraging steel, a variety with great strength, the institute’s report said.
2008 February 8, David E. Sanger, “Iran Is Reported to Test New Centrifuges to Make Atomic Fuel”, in New York Times
Origin
By surface analysis, blend of martensitic + aging, or, by surface analysis, mar- + aging.
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