Metallurgy

Metallurgy

Metal works and production.

Industry: Metals; Materials science

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Spring steel strip

Metals; Metallurgy

Any of a number of strip steels produced for use in the manufacture of steel springs or where high tensile properties are required marketed in the annealed state, hard rolled or as hardened and ...

Spiegel

Metals; Metallurgy

High-manganese pig iron, containing 15-30% manganese, approximately 5% carbon, and less than 1% silicon used in the manufacture of steel by the Bessemer, or basic open-hearth process.

Spinning

Metals; Metallurgy

The procedure of making sheet metal discs into hollow shapes by pressing the metal against a rotating form (spinning chuck) by a tool.

Spot welding

Metals; Metallurgy

Welding of lapped parts in which fusion is confined to a relatively small circular area. It is generally resistance welding, but may also be gas-shielded tungsten-arc, gas-shielded metal-arc, or ...

An optical instrument for determining the presence or concentration of minor metallic constituents in a material by indicating the presence and intensity of specific wave lengths of radiation when ...

Prime western spelter

Metals; Metallurgy

A low-grade of Virgin Zinc containing approximately 98% Zinc used in galvanising processes.

Speroidizing

Metals; Metallurgy

Heating and cooling to produce a spheroidal or globular form of carbide in steel. Spheroidizing methods frequently used are: 1. Prolonged holding at a temperature just below Ae1. . 2. Heating and ...