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Metals

Of or pertaining to any element, compound or alloy that conducts both heat and electricity.

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attrition

Metals; Steel

A natural reduction in work force as a result of resignations, retirements, or death.

austenitic

Metals; Steel

The largest category of stainless steel, accounting for about 70% of all production. The austenitic class offers the most resistance to corrosion in the stainless group, owing to ...

auto stamping plant

Metals; Steel

A facility that presses a steel blank into the desired form of a car door or hood, for example, with a powerful die (pattern). The steel used must be ductile (malleable) enough ...

automatic gauge control

Metals; Steel

Using hydraulic roll force systems, steelmakers have the ability to control precisely their steel sheet’s gauge (thickness) while it is traveling at more than 50 miles per hour ...

baghouse

Metals; Steel

An air pollutant control device used to trap particles by filtering gas streams through large cloth or fiberglass bags.

bake hardenable steel

Metals; Steel

A cold-rolled, low-carbon sheet steel used for automotive body panel applications. Because of special processing, the steel has good stamping and strength characteristics, and, ...

basic oxygen furnace (BOF)

Metals; Steel

A pear-shaped furnace, lined with refractory bricks, that refines molten iron from the blast furnace and scrap into steel. Up to 30% of the charge into the BOF can be scrap, with ...