martensitic

  1. Adjective.  Of or pertaining to the mineral martensite.
  2. Adjective.  (physics, chemistry) Describing a diffusionless transition of one crystal structure to another generated by coordinated atomic, ionic or molecular displacements over small distances (first studied in the mineral).

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