Metallographist

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One who writes on the subject of metals. dated

    "But, alas, you and I cannot thus escape each other's jargon, for the metallographist must needs learn from the millman and the millman from the metallographist, and each has become the slave of his own tools, his own jargon."

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"But, alas, you and I cannot thus escape each other's jargon, for the metallographist must needs learn from the millman and the millman from the metallographist, and each has become the slave of his own tools, his own jargon."

Etymology

From metallography + -ist.

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