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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".