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embrittlement

loss of ductility of a material, making it brittle
Class type of: change, increase, physicochemical process Q2919530

Facts

6 properties
Instance of
failure cause, product defect[5]
Subclass of
change, increase, physicochemical process
Facet of
catabolic process, brittleness[10][11]
Has cause
corrosion, segregation, cold, electromagnetic radiation[6][7][8][9]
Immediate cause of
brittleness[14]
Partially coincident with
degradation, material degradation[12][13]
🏷️ Also known as
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🔖 Identifiers · 9
GND ID
4125199-4
OpenAlex ID
C142282041
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
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Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID
300077803
Freebase ID
/m/0cz4bw
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
142282041
TDKIV Wikibase ID
Copenhagen
TDKIV term ID
000001745
Yale LUX ID
concept/8732091c-bd49-4a2a-ac1f-cea408b8930b

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🔗 Connections
Has cause 4
electromagnetic radiation, corrosion, cold, segregation
Facet of 2
catabolic process, brittleness
Instance of 2
product defect, failure cause
Immediate cause of 1
brittleness
Subclass of 1
change
TDKIV Wikibase ID 1
Copenhagen
← Facet of 1
segregation
← Has effect 1
gallium
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Summary

embrittlement is a failure cause[1]. embrittlement is a type of change[2], increase[3], and physicochemical process[4].

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  1. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 3d ago · MatSuBot bot · 2026-11-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → change, increase, physicochemical process
    Partially coincident with → degradation, material degradation
    Sitelink count → 6
    Facet of → catabolic process, brittleness
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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