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Metallurgy
Metal works and production.
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accordion reed steel
Metals; Metallurgy
Hardened, tempered, polished and blued or yellow flat steel with dressed edges. Carbon content about 1. 00. Material has to possess good flatness, uniform hardness and high elasticity.
acid steel
Metals; Metallurgy
Steel melted in a furnace with an acid bottom and lining and under a slag containing an excess of an acid substance such as silica.
acid-brittleness
Metals; Metallurgy
Brittleness resulting from pickling steel in acid; hydrogen, formed by the interaction between iron and acid, is partially absorbed by the metal, causing acid brittleness.
body-centered
Metals; Metallurgy
Having the equivalent lattice points at the corners of the unit cell, and at its center; sometimes called centered, or space-centered.
bonderizing
Metals; Metallurgy
The coating of steel with a film composed largely of zinc phosphate in order to develop a better bonding surface for paint or lacquer.
