6 Terms
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Metalworking
blacksmith
Metals; Metalworking
A person who works with metals to make everyday things. The word "smith" is said to come from the word "smite" or "to strike" as with a hammer. Black refers to the color of iron and steel after it ...
borax
Metals; Metalworking
A soft white mineral used as a flux for brazing and welding. It is used as forge welding flux by blacksmiths nd in coated arc welding rods.
bluing
Metals; Metalworking
Also known as "gun blue" is a chemical process that produces a a blue or blue black oxide finish on steel. The blues are often known as "niter" blues because of the use of nitric acid in the process. ...
knurling
Metals; Metalworking
Knurling is a manufacturing process, typically conducted on a lathe, whereby a diamond-shaped (criss-cross) pattern is cut or rolled into metal.
chisel
Metals; Metalworking
A chisel is a tool with a characteristically shaped cutting edge (such that wood chisels have lent part of their name to a particular grind) of blade on its end, for carving or cutting a hard ...
elastoforming
Metals; Metalworking
It is a metal forming process in which part of the die comprises an elastic body (elastomer) that shapes the metal sheet against a suitably shaped rigid matrix. Elastoforming is a technology for ...
Wang Wenyin
Metals; Metalworking
Wang Wenyin chairs Amer International Group, a supplier of cable and copper products that also has mining interests. Sales last year totaled $38 billion. Amer operates 6 industrial parks in Shenzhen ...
