cold welding
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Synonyms: cold-welding, cold reading, cold molding, cold heading
Antonyms: cold-welding, cold reading, cold molding, cold heading
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Noun
- A phenomenon where in a vacuum, two clean oxide-less uncoated metal surfaces will fuse, weld, or merge together when they come into contact with each other, without any other action required (without fusion heating).
Verb
- present participle and gerund of cold weld
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