Sentence examples for reduce hardness from inspiring English sources

A rise in Ni3P to a certain value increased microhardness, but excessive Ni3P may reduce hardness.

Four new parameters were also defined: reference water content for adequate hardness and adhesiveness and water content required to reduce hardness or adhesiveness by half.

Furthermore, according to Bhatia et al. (2007), the protein in the M. oleifera seed is a natural product, which can reduce hardness in water or wastewater with better performance and a low risk to environment, thus replacing the more costly chemical coagulants such as alum and powdered-activated carbon.

Furthermore, the hardness, elastic modulus, and distribution of reduced hardness improved after ultrasonic treatment.

This tempering process reduces residual stresses produced by the phase transformation, reduces hardness by coarsening the carbide precipitate, and increases toughness.

A conventional furnace heat treatment critically reduces hardness and fracture toughness after a certain temperature.

The nitrocarburised layers have not only high hardness like the nitrided layer, but also high thickness and gradually reduced hardness profile like the carburised layer.

Unlike the YSZ Ag films that exhibited reduced hardness with increasing metal content, YSZ Mo film hardness increased from 12 to 17.5 GPa at 15 and 24 at.% molybdenum, respectively.

The increase was due to the addition of SiC particulates, overriding the effect of Gr particulates, and the decrease was due to the overriding effect of Gr particulates, the addition of which reduced hardness as a consequence of the increase of porosity.

Compared to normal enamel, fluorosed enamel has a lower mineral content and a higher protein content [26], [27], [28], [29], [30], [31], [32] and therefore, has reduced hardness.

This will reduce the hardness somewhat but increase the ductility.