6. Glossary

Armor (Fabric)

Interweaving of warp and weft threads for weaving textiles.

Carboréduction (Carboreduction)

Metal reduction method that extracts metals from their oxides in the presence of coke at high temperature.

Eutectic (Eutectic)

A mixture of two pure substances that melts and solidifies at constant temperature, unlike the usual mixtures. In fact, it behaves like a pure body in terms of melting.

Sintering

Part manufacturing process consisting in heating a powder without melting it, in order to weld the grains together and ensure the cohesion of the part.

Graphitable (Graphitable )

The ability of certain highly disordered carbon structures to be ordered by high-temperature...