#metallurgy ro
- Chips — Plural form of the noun 'așchie' (splinter / chip); small, thin, and sharp fragments detached from a solid body (wood, metal, stone, glass) following a mechanical action of cutting, breaking, carving, or turning. In an industrial technical sense, it represents the production waste resulting from processing materials on machine tools, structurally classified into tear chips, continuous chips, or segment chips.