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What does embrittle mean?

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Verb
  1. To become or make brittle.
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However, these coatings where the concentration of active HALS drops to zero at the surface are known to rapidly photooxidize and embrittle.
The grenade fuzes are cut off mechanically before the grenades are passed through a bath of liquid nitrogen to embrittle their structures.
Hydrogen will embrittle the high-strength steel used in such pipelines, however, raising the risk of rupture and explosion of leading hydrogen.
The galvanized parts are heated to a temperature sufficient to embrittle the coating which is then removed by abrasion.
Hydrogen is a concern in metallurgy as it can embrittle many metals, complicating the design of pipelines and storage tanks.
The high temperature treatment effaces the strains, coalesces the sulphide films in the ferrite which embrittle the steel and produces homogenity by rapid diffusion.

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