Pagină de pornire > Blossary: Iron

Categorie:

157 Terms

Created by: Sanford Cruz

Number of Blossarys: 1

My Terms
Collected Terms

Following the sucessful introduction of the Bessemer process for producing steel, the Siemens process was devised. It can be regarded as an updated and enlarged version of the puddling process but ...

Domain: Metals; Industrie/Domeniu: Iron

Process by which high quality steel is produced from molten pig iron. Now superseded by other methods, the process was patented by Henry Bessemer is 1856. The molten iron is poured into the 'Bessemer ...

Domain: Metals; Industrie/Domeniu: Iron

Furnace built like a tower for reducing ore into metal. Can be used as part of non ferrus metal reduction, but is normally associated with iron production. Ore (iron ore for iron production), coke ...

Domain: Metals; Industrie/Domeniu: Iron

Very early type of furnace for reducing iron ore directly into wrought iron. Product was of poor quality as it was never molten. Slag was generally removed by hammering, but some was inevitably left ...

Domain: Metals; Industrie/Domeniu: Iron

Most common and generally useful form of steel. Contains 0.3% of carbon.

Domain: Metals; Industrie/Domeniu: Iron

Iron with a high carbon content (above 2%). Identical, in most cases, to pig iron, it is easily cast to almost any shape and melts at a lower temperature to other type of iron and steel. ...

Domain: Metals; Industrie/Domeniu: Iron

A furnace (more of a kiln) in which wrought iron bars and charcoal were heated for up to two weeks, until the carbon had been absorbed into the surface of the iron. The resulting blister steel could ...

Domain: Metals; Industrie/Domeniu: Iron

Member comments


( You can type up to 200 characters )

Publicare  
Other Blossarys