Definition of "intergranular" []

• Occurring along the boundaries between the crystals or grains of a metal (adjective)

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• "The lighter areas reveal where gases are rising from below, while the darker 'intergranular lanes' reveal where cooler gases are sinking back down."
• "In Appendix C of its BPAT Report, FEMA documented that "evidence of a severe high temperature corrosion attack on the steel, including oxidation and sulfidation with subsequent intergranular melting, was readily visible in the near-surface microstructure.""
• "We can repeat the previous reasoning with the only change that the intergranular space, instead of being void, is now a liquid which exerts on each grain, in an opposite direction to its weight, a push in accordance with Archimedes 'principle."