metallographist

English

Etymology

metallography +‎ -ist

Noun

metallographist (plural metallographists)

1. (dated) One who writes on the subject of metals.
   • 1911, Electrochemical and Metallurgical Industry, volume 9, page 286:

     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.

   • 1915 November 4, Iron Trade Review‎^[1], volume 57, page 920:

     It has been said that the metallographic microscope is an instrument for seeing only what you want to see, and this slur on the good faith and credibility of metallographists will only be strengthened by such statements as that of the authors that their photomicrograph No. 3, magnified 225 diameters, shows segregation, while No. 4 does not.

   • 1938, Albert Sauveur, The Metallography and Heat Treatment of Iron and Steel‎^[2], page 1:

     Which of the two reports is of more immediate practical value, the chemist's or the metallographist's? Surely, that of the metallographist.