found: Work cat.: Copeland, M.I. Reducing surface hot shortness of copper-bearing steels, 1972:p. 1 (The problem is that copper-containing steels can exhibit surface hot-shortness when such steels are heated and hot-worked.)
found: Web. 3 (hot-short; hot-shortness)
found: Van Nostrand's scientific encyclopedia, 2002:v. 1, p. 1800 (hot shortness -- Brittleness of metals in the hot working temperature range)
found: Academic Press dictionary of science and technology, 1992(hot shortness -- metallurgy -- the undesirable separation of grains at their boundaries during deformation at elevated temperatures)
found: Chambers dictionary of science and technology, 1999(hot-short -- Said of metals that tend to be brittle at temperatures at which hot-working operations are performed. Also, red-short)
found: McGraw-Hill dictionary of scientific and technical terms, 2003(hot shortness -- Brittleness, usually of steel or wrought iron, when the metal is hot, due to a high sulfur content)
found: OCLC, Aug. 29, 2005(title: Influence of sulphur, oxygen, copper and manganese on the red-shortness of iron)