Metallurgy

Metallurgy

Metal works and production.

Industry: Metals; Materials science

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soldering

Metals; Metallurgy

Joining metals by fusion of alloys that have relatively low melting points -- most commonly, lead-base or tin-base alloys, which are the soft solders. Hard solders are alloys that have silver, ...

solid solution

Metals; Metallurgy

A solid crystalline phase containing two or more chemical species in concentrations that may vary between limits imposed by phase equilibrium.

solidus

Metals; Metallurgy

In a constitutional diagram, the locus of points representing the temperatures at which various components finish freezing on cooling or begin to melt on heating.

slip direction

Metals; Metallurgy

The crystallographic direction in which translation of slip takes place.

slip plane

Metals; Metallurgy

The crystallographic plane on which slip occurs in a crystal.

slip line

Metals; Metallurgy

Trace of a slip plane on a viewing surface.

A product resulting from the action of a flux on the nonmetallic constituents of a processed ore, or on the oxidized metallic constituents that are undesirable. Usually slags consist of combinations ...