The Metals Used in Construction. Iron, Steel, Bessemer Metal, Etc. Etc |
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... taken as a fair average that 60 cubic feet per minute will produce 1 ton of metal per week . " The blast is admitted into the hearth at a pressure which varies within considerable limits , according to the season of the year or the ...
... taken as a fair average that 60 cubic feet per minute will produce 1 ton of metal per week . " The blast is admitted into the hearth at a pressure which varies within considerable limits , according to the season of the year or the ...
Page 57
... taken . This is a reverbating furnace , that is so arranged as to cause the flames and heated air to be thrown down upon the metal placed in it the heat of which air melts the iron , portions of which flow along the bottom of the ...
... taken . This is a reverbating furnace , that is so arranged as to cause the flames and heated air to be thrown down upon the metal placed in it the heat of which air melts the iron , portions of which flow along the bottom of the ...
Page 77
... taken out from it and examined , to note the different stages of the process . The retort thus filled is gradually heated by a slow fire till the temperature reaches the point of 100 ° of Wedgwood's pyrometer ; to alter which tem ...
... taken out from it and examined , to note the different stages of the process . The retort thus filled is gradually heated by a slow fire till the temperature reaches the point of 100 ° of Wedgwood's pyrometer ; to alter which tem ...
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Francis Herbert Joynson. down , the bars are taken out , and form what is called . " blistered steel , " so named from the numerous blisters with which the surface is covered , arising from the gases evolved in the process of the ...
Francis Herbert Joynson. down , the bars are taken out , and form what is called . " blistered steel , " so named from the numerous blisters with which the surface is covered , arising from the gases evolved in the process of the ...
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... taken out , and their contents poured into iron moulds , and left there till they are sufficiently cooled to be taken out . The metal thus obtained is perfectly homogeneous , or of uniform tex- ture ; but it is exceedingly brittle and ...
... taken out , and their contents poured into iron moulds , and left there till they are sufficiently cooled to be taken out . The metal thus obtained is perfectly homogeneous , or of uniform tex- ture ; but it is exceedingly brittle and ...
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1817 LIBRARIES Alumina ANALYSIS annealing Bessemer metal Bessemer process blast furnace blistered steel boiling brass brittle bronze calcined called Carbonic Acid case-hardened cast cast-iron cast-steel cent charcoal chemical chilling clay cloth coal coating coke cold cold-blast colour combined CONSTRUCTION containing converting vessel copper crucible decarbonisation edition Engineer fire fuel graphite grey hammered hard hearth heat hematite high temperature hot-blast iron Illustrated impurities layer lime Magnesia manganese manufacture mass material mechanical melted Messrs MICHIGAN MICHIGAN mixed mixture NOSTRAND'S PUBLICATIONS obtained oolitic operation oxide oxidised oxygen paragraph patent Peroxide of Iron Phosphoric Acid phosphorus pieces pig-iron pipe powdered practice proportion Protoxide prussiate of potash puddler puddling furnace quality of iron quantity re-melting red hematite red-shortness refining render reverbatory furnace rust sal-ammoniac sand scrap-iron Silica slag smelting Spiegeleisen steam steel strength subjected sulphur surface tion TREATISE UNIV welding wood-cuts wrought-iron zinc