Materials Science is the study of materials that engineers
are interested in working with. The actual subject matter
has a large degree of overlap with solid
chemistry and
applied
physics, and also the science of
geology, plus of
course the engineering diciplines themselves. The existence
of materials science as a separate discipline is more a
mater of history than anything inherent in the subject itself
(much like, say, the split between
anthropology and
sociology):
when engineers got interested in things besides
metal,
the metallurgists became "materials scientists".
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