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Metallurgy
Metal works and production.
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bluing
Metals; Metallurgy
Subjecting the scale-free surface of a ferrous alloy to the action of air, steam, or other agents at a suitable temperature, thus forming a thin blue film of oxide and improving the appearance and ...
blue brittleness
Metals; Metallurgy
Brittleness exhibited by some steels after being heated to some temperature within the range of 300 (degrees) to 650 (degrees) F, and more especially if the steel is worked at the elevated ...
blue annealing
Metals; Metallurgy
Heating hot rolled ferrous sheet in an open furnace to a temperature within the transformation range and then cooling in air, in order to soften the metal. The formation of a bluish oxide on the ...
blowhole
Metals; Metallurgy
A cavity which was produced during the solidification of metal by evolved gas, which in failing to escape is held in pockets.
bloom
Metals; Metallurgy
(1) Ancient Definition: iron produced in a solid condition directly by the reduction of ore in a primitive furnace. The carbon content is variable but usually low. Also known as bloomery iron. The ...
blooming-mill
Metals; Metallurgy
A mill used to reduce ingots to blooms, billets slabs, sheet-bar etc. ,
