acrimony

The Latin word acritūdo arrived in Castilian as acrimony. According to the first meaning mentioned by the dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE), the concept is synonymous with acrimony: the roughness, harshness or rigor of something.

For example: "The acrimony remained throughout the legislative session", "Thanks to the changes promoted by this government, now there is legal acrimony and criminals pay for their crimes", "I always exercised my work with acrimony".

The acrimony, in this way, can refer to the character of a person or to the type of bond that it establishes with other subjects. The notion refers to severity wave inclemency. A teacher who exercises his work with acrimony does not tolerate the lack of respect and the indiscipline of his students. That is why he often applies punishments to those who do not behave in the appropriate way or who violate the rules of conduct.

In a similar vein, the head of a business You can address your employees with acrimony. This man prefers to keep a distance with his subordinates and chooses not to allow the development of an affectionate relationship.

It is important to note that acrimony in dealing with other people is not a pleasant thing; on the contrary, it can be understood as a synonym for acidity, brusqueness, irony and sharpness, among other similar terms. Not to be confused with a attitude strict, but refers to the absence of sweetness in communication.

Although it is not a very used word in everyday speech, it is common to label someone "sour" when their way of treating us does not seem appropriate. For example, a clerk in a store who serves poorly way to your clients for no apparent reason, or to a government agency employee who seems to want to instill fear in the public, two cases that occur very often in certain cities.

The acrimony, according to the RAE, is also linked to the roughness felt through the smell or taste: "Be careful with this ingredient: if you use too much, its pungency will overshadow the other flavors", "There are people who find the pungency of the onion unpleasant", "The acrimony of this vinegar can be seen by its aroma".

In the field of engineering, is called acrimony condition of a metal that, for various reasons, has lost its malleability and ductility. This is also known as strain hardening or cold, and takes place because of a plastic deformation in the material that increases the density of its dislocations.

By dislocation we mean, in the world of solid state physics and materials science, a series of defects that take place in the one-dimensional crystal lattice. The phenomenon Work hardening occurs at a macroscopic level as a resistance to the aforementioned deformation, and this occurs through the process of saturation of the material with more dislocations, since it resists new ones being generated and moving.

In the case of type crystals metal, the plastic deformation cannot be reversed and is generated by dislocations when moving, something that affects its entire structure. If these crystals are at a normal temperature, that is, not approaching any of the extremes of cold or heat, the deformation of a material also leads to the creation of dislocations; in this case, more are produced than are eliminated, and they generate tensions that block the mobility of others. Thus decreases the ductility of the material, as a consequence of a growth in its resistance.