1. if steel or iron cool very slowly the cementite may occur in globules instead of in layers; [syn: granular pearlite, globular pearlite]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
granular pearlite
n 1: if steel or iron cool very slowly the cementite may occur
in globules instead of in layers [syn: granular pearlite,
globular pearlite]