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Metallurgy

Metal works and production.

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Metallurgy

Semikilled steel

Metals; Metallurgy

Steel incompletely deoxidized, to permit evolution of sufficient carbon monoxide to offset solidification shrinkage.

Sendzimir mill

Metals; Metallurgy

A mill having two work rolls of 1 to 2 1/2-in dia. Each, backed up by two rolls twice that diameter and each of these backed up by bearings on a shaft mounted eccentrically so that rotating it ...

Self diffusion

Metals; Metallurgy

The spontaneous movement of an atom to a new site in a crystal of its own species.

Self-hardening steel

Metals; Metallurgy

A steel containing sufficient carbon or alloying element, or both, form martensite either through air hardening or, as in welding and induction hardening, through rapid removal of heat from a locally ...

Slack quenching

Metals; Metallurgy

The process of hardening steel by quenching from the austenitizing temperature at a rate slower than the critical cooling rate for the particular steel, resulting in incomplete hardening and the ...

Slab

Metals; Metallurgy

A piece of metal, intermediate between ingot and plate, at least twice as wide as it is thick.

Skull

Metals; Metallurgy

A layer of solidified metal or dross on the wall of a pouring vessel often when metal has been poured.

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