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Brinell hardness

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Bri·nell hardness  (br-nl)
n.
The relative hardness of metals and alloys, determined by forcing a steel ball into a test piece under standard conditions and measuring the surface area of the resulting indentation.
[After Johan August Brinell (1849-1925), Swedish engineer.]


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