Metallurgy

Metallurgy

Metal works and production.

Industry: Metals; Materials science

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semi-steel

Metals; Metallurgy

Cast iron (not steel) of high quality, obtained by using a large percentage of steel scrap with the pig iron.

semifinished steel

Metals; Metallurgy

Steel in the form of billets, blooms, itc. , requiring further working before completion into finished steel ready for marketing.

semikilled steel

Metals; Metallurgy

Steel incompletely deoxidized, to permit evolution of sufficient carbon monoxide to offset solidification shrinkage.

sendzimir mill

Metals; Metallurgy

A mill having two work rolls of 1 to 2 1/2-in dia. Each, backed up by two rolls twice that diameter and each of these backed up by bearings on a shaft mounted eccentrically so that rotating it ...

self diffusion

Metals; Metallurgy

The spontaneous movement of an atom to a new site in a crystal of its own species.

A steel containing sufficient carbon or alloying element, or both, form martensite either through air hardening or, as in welding and induction hardening, through rapid removal of heat from a locally ...