vacuum melting furnace
1vacuum melting — vacuum melting, a method of melting metals or alloys a sealed furnace to prevent atmospheric oxidation, remove gaseous impurities, and improve purity and physical properties: »To produce stronger and more ductile steel, 17 U.S. companies have… …
2Vacuum engineering — deals with technological processes and equipment that use vacuum to achieve better results than those run under atmospheric pressure. The most widespread applications of vacuum technology are: * Pyrolytic Chromium Carbide Coating * Antireflecting …
3Vacuum furnace — A vacuum furnace is a type of furnace that can heat materials, typically metals, to very high temperatures and carry out processes such as brazing, sintering and heat treatment with high consistency and low contamination. In a vacuum furnace the… …
4Electric arc furnace — An electric arc furnace (EAF) is a furnace that heats charged material by means of an electric arc. Arc furnaces range in size from small units of approximately one ton capacity (used in foundries for producing cast iron products) up to about 400 …
5industrial glass — Introduction solid material that is normally lustrous and transparent in appearance and that shows great durability under exposure to the natural elements. These three properties lustre, transparency, and durability make glass a favoured… …
6Heraeus — Infobox Company company name = Heraeus Holding GmbH company type = Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung/ Private foundation = 1851 location city = Hanau location country = Germany key people = Wilhelm Carl Heraeus, Founder Dr. Jürgen Heraeus,… …
7Kroll process — The Kroll process is a pyrometallurgical industrial process used to produce metallic titanium. It was invented in 1940 by William J. Kroll in Luxembourg. After moving to the United States, Kroll further developed the method in 1945 for the… …
8steel — steellike, adj. /steel/, n. 1. any of various modified forms of iron, artificially produced, having a carbon content less than that of pig iron and more than that of wrought iron, and having qualities of hardness, elasticity, and strength varying …
9Brazing — This article is about the metal joining process. For the cooking technique, see braising. Brazing practice Brazing is a metal joining process whereby a filler metal is heated above and distributed between two or more close fitting parts by… …
10metallurgy — metallurgic, metallurgical, adj. metallurgically, adv. metallurgist /met l err jist/ or, esp. Brit., /meuh tal euhr jist/, n. /met l err jee/ or, esp. Brit., /meuh tal euhr jee/, n. 1. the technique or science of working or heating metals so as… …
