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Metallurgy
Metal works and production.
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puddling process
Metals; Metallurgy
A process for making wrought iron in which cast orn is melted in a hearth furnace and rabbled with slag and oxide until a pasty mass is obtained. This process was developed by Henry Cort about 1784 ...
pulse-echo method
Metals; Metallurgy
A nondestructive test in which pulses of energy are directed onto a part, and the time for the echo to return from one or more reflecting surfaces is measured.
punch
Metals; Metallurgy
The movable part that forces the metal into the die in equipment for sheet drawing, blanking, coining, embossing and the like.
quench aging
Metals; Metallurgy
Aging that occurs after quenching following solution heat treatment.
quarter hard
Metals; Metallurgy
(A) In low carbon cold-rolled strip steel, a medium soft temper produced by a limited amount of cold rolling after annealing. (B) In brass mill terminology. Quarter hard is one B and S number hard or ...
