Which brittleness increase occurs when rapidly-cooled bronze tools experience re-forging?

💡 Explanation

Repeated bronze toolworking introduces brittleness because segregation of alloying elements at grain boundaries weakens cohesion along these planes; therefore crack propagation is enhanced, rather than strengthening through work hardening mechanisms.

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