braze vs cleave

braze

verb
  • To cover with brass, or as with brass. 

  • To join two metal pieces, without melting them, using heat and diffusion of a jointing alloy of capillary thickness. 

noun
  • A kind of small charcoal used for roasting ore. 

cleave

verb
  • To split or sever something with, or as if with, a sharp instrument. 

  • To make or accomplish by or as if by cutting. 

  • Followed by to or unto: to adhere, cling, or stick fast to something. 

  • To split. 

  • To split (a complex molecule) into simpler molecules. 

  • Of a crystal, to split along a natural plane of division. 

  • To break a single crystal (such as a gemstone or semiconductor wafer) along one of its more symmetrical crystallographic planes (often by impact), forming facets on the resulting pieces. 

noun
  • Flat, smooth surface produced by cleavage, or any similar surface produced by similar techniques, as in glass. 

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