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What does embrittle mean?

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Verb
  1. To become or make brittle.
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This combination of gases produces a corrosive by-product that causes lesser pressure sensor technologies to embrittle and fail during the refining process of oil and gas.
Above that, they will embrittle and cease to function as intended.
It should however be noted that excessive treatment can embrittle the substrate or even destroy the superficial coating.
The galvanized parts are heated to a temperature sufficient to embrittle the coating which is then removed by abrasion.
Oxygen is able to embrittle beryllium, but there is no quantitative measure of the effect.
However, these coatings where the concentration of active HALS drops to zero at the surface are known to rapidly photooxidize and embrittle.

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