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What physical property of a material that refers to the temperature at which ferromagnetic materials can no longer be magnetized by outside forces?

Curie point

What physical property of a material refers to the amount of weight gain (%) experienced in a polymer after immersion in water for a specified length of time under a controlled environment?

Water absorption

What physical property of a material that refers to the rate of heat flow per unit time in a homogenous material under steady-state conditions per unit are, per unit temperature gradient in a direction perpendicular to area?

Thermal conductivity

What physical property of a material refers to the highest potential difference (voltage) that an insulting material of given thickness can withstand for a specified time without occurrence of electrical breakdown through its bulk?

Dielectric strength

What physical property of a material refers to the ratio of the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of a unit mass of a substance 1 degree to the heat required to raise the same mass of water to 1 degree.

Specific heat

What physical property of a material refers to the temperature at which a polymer under a specified load shows a specified amount of deflection?

Heat distortion temperature

In what special refining process of steel where molten metal is poured down a tundish (chute) into an ingot mold?

Electron beam refining

What term is used to describe a polymer that has rubberlike properties?

Elastomer

A large molecule with two alternating mers is called as _______.

Coplymer or interpolymer

Some polymetric materials such as epoxies are formed by strong primary chemical bonds called ________.

Cross linking

The property of metals that allows them to be drawn into thin wires beyond their elastic limit without being ruptured is called

Malleability

Interaction between the surface of two closely adjacent bodies which causes them to cling together is known as

Adhesion

Solids which break above the elastic limit are called

Brittle

The property of some elementary particles that causes them to exert force on one another is known as

Charge

The property which permits the flow of current under the action of a potential difference is called

Conductance

When a body is resistant to heat, it is called

Thermoduric

The property of fluids by virtue of which they offer resistance to flow is known as

Viscosity

The tendency of a body to return to its original size or shape after having been deformed is called

Elasticity

The emission of light by a material because of its high temperature is known as

Incandescence

Which of the following statements is correct concerning the passage of white light into a glass prism?

The violet color travels slower than the red color

Property of some pure metals and their alloys at extremely low temperatures of having negligible to the flow of an electric current is called

Superconductivity

The progressive decrease of a property as a result of repeated stress is called

Fatigue

If a materials is feebly repelled by a magnet it is

Diamagnetic

Emission of radiations from a substance during illumination by radiations of higher frequency is called

Fluorescence

The property of some crystals of absorbing light difference extents, thereby giving to the crystals different colors according to the direction of the incident light is known as

Dichroism

The property of an object that determines the direction of heat flow when in contact with another object is called

Thernal conductivity

The property of an object that determines the direction of heat flow when in contact with another object is called

Temperature

If the properties of a body are the same in all directions, it is called

Isotropic

The property of an isolated conductor to store electric charge is

Capacitance

The property by virtue of which a body resists any attempt to change its state of rest or motion is called

Inertia

What is the amount of energy required to fracture a given volume of material?

Impact strength

What mechanical property of a material which is a time-dependent permanent strain under stress?

Creep

What refers to the stress at which a material exhibits a specified deviation from proportionality of stress and strain?

Yield strength

The greatest stress which a material is capable of withstanding without a deviation from acceptable of stress to strain is called _______.

Proportional unit

What is the maximum stress below which a material can theoretically endure an infinite number of stress cycles?

Endurance limit

What is a substance that attracts piece of iron?

Magnet

Which of the following is a natural magnet?

Lodestone

What is the resistance of a material to plastic deformation?

Hardness

Which of the following materials has permeability slightly less than that of free space?

Diamagnetic materials

What materials has permeabilities slightly greater than of free space?

Paramagnetic materials

What is a method of forming polymer sheets or films into three-dimensional shapes, in which the sheets is clamped on the edge, heated until it soften and sags, drawn in contact with the mold by vacuum, and cooled while still in contact with the mold?

Thermoforming

What refers to the tendency for polymers and molecular material to form with an ordered spatial, three-dimensional arrangement of monomer molecules?

Stereospecificity

What is measure of rigidity?

Modulus of elasticity

What refers to the deterioration of material by oscillatory relative motion of small amplitude (20 to 100 µm) between two solid surfaces in a corrosive environment?

Fretting corrosion

What is a process for making glass-reinforced shapes that can be generate by polling resin-impregnated glass stands through a die?

Continuous pultrusion

What refers to the application of any process whereby the surface of steel is altered so that it will become hard?

Casehardening

What structure is formed when transformation occurs at temperatures down to the knee of the curve?

Pearlite

What is the purpose of molybdenum in steel alloying?

To increase dynamic and high-temperature strength and hardness

What field of study encompasses the procurement and production of metals?

Metallurgy

What is a process of producing a hard surface in a steel having a sufficiently high carbon content to respond to hardening by a rapid cooling of the surface?

Flame hardening