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Metallurgy
Metal works and production.
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scleroscope test
Metals; Metallurgy
A hardness test where the loss in kinetic energy of a falling metal tup, absorbed by indentation upon impact of the tup on the metal being tested, is indicated by the height of rebound.
scleroscope hardness
Metals; Metallurgy
A method for measuring the hardness of metals; a diamond-pointed hammer drops from a fixed distance through a tube onto the smoothed metal surface and the rebound measured. The scleroscope hardness ...
scab
Metals; Metallurgy
A blemish caused on a casting by eruption of gas from the mold face, or by uneven mold surfaces; or occurring where the skin from a blowhole has partly burned away and is not welded.
rolling mills
Metals; Metallurgy
Equipment used for rolling down metal to a smaller size or to a given shape employing sets of rolls the contours of which determine or fashion the product into numerous intermediate and final shapes, ...
rolling direction
Metals; Metallurgy
The direction, in the plane of the sheet, perpendicular to the axes of the rolls during rolling.
salt spray test
Metals; Metallurgy
An accelerated corrosion test in which the metal specimens are exposed to a fine mist of salt water solution either continuously or intermittently.
