Metallurgy

Metallurgy

Metal works and production.

Industry: Metals; Materials science

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Cavitation

Metals; Metallurgy

The formation and instantaneous collapse of innumerable tiny voids or cavities within a liquid subjected to rapid and intense pressure changes. Cavitation produced by ultrasonic radiation is ...

Casting

Metals; Metallurgy

(1) An object at or near finished shape obtained by solidification of a substance in a mold. (2) Pouring molten metal into a mould to produce an object of desired shape.

Cast iron

Metals; Metallurgy

Iron containing more carbon than the solubility limit in austenite (about 2%).

Case

Metals; Metallurgy

In a ferrous alloy, the outer portion that has been made harder than the inner portion, or core.

70% copper 30% zinc. This is one of the most widely used of the copper-zinc alloys; it is formable and ductile and possesses excellent cold-working, poor hot working and poor machining properties. ...

Carburizing

Metals; Metallurgy

A process in which an austenitized ferrous material is brought into contact with a carbonaceous atmosphere having sufficient carbon potential to cause absorption of carbon at the surface and, by ...

Cementite

Metals; Metallurgy

A compound of iron and carbon known as Iron carbide, which has the approximate chemical formula Fe3C containing 6. 69% of carbon. Hard and brittle, it is the hard constituent of cast iron, and the ...