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Black plate
A light weight or a thin uncoated steel sheet or strip so called because of its dark oxide colouring prior to pickling. It is manufactured by two different processes. (1) Form sheet bar on single stand sheet mills or sheet mills in tandem. This method is now almost obsolete. (2) On modern, high speed continuous tandem cold reduction mills from coiled hot rolled pickled wide strip into ribbon wound coils to finished gage. Sizes range from 12 to 32 in width, and in thicknesses from 55 lbs. To 275 lbs. Base box weight. It is used either as is for stampings, or may be enamelled or painted or tin or terne coated.
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