Mixed Metals: Or, Metallic Alloys |
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... whiteness and brilliant lustre , although when precipitated from its solutions it often forms a gray powder ; it is harder than gold , but softer than copper , the relative hardness being as 4 : 5 20 CHAP . MIXED METALS.
... whiteness and brilliant lustre , although when precipitated from its solutions it often forms a gray powder ; it is harder than gold , but softer than copper , the relative hardness being as 4 : 5 20 CHAP . MIXED METALS.
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... harder , and causing it somewhat to resemble gun - metal in colour , but diminishes its toughness and malleability . Lead , arsenic , and antimony have a very injurious action on copper , making it hard , brittle , and cold - short ...
... harder , and causing it somewhat to resemble gun - metal in colour , but diminishes its toughness and malleability . Lead , arsenic , and antimony have a very injurious action on copper , making it hard , brittle , and cold - short ...
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... harder , more fusible , and brittle . When iron is heated to dazzling whiteness in air it burns , forming the black oxide Fe3O4 , the iron becoming friable and brittle , and is then termed " burnt iron . " Iron may be magnetised by ...
... harder , more fusible , and brittle . When iron is heated to dazzling whiteness in air it burns , forming the black oxide Fe3O4 , the iron becoming friable and brittle , and is then termed " burnt iron . " Iron may be magnetised by ...
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... harder and somewhat diminishes its tenacity . 5 per cent makes it cold - short but not red - short . 1 per cent makes it very brittle . The effect of phosphorus on iron is , to impart a coarsely crystalline structure , diminish its ...
... harder and somewhat diminishes its tenacity . 5 per cent makes it cold - short but not red - short . 1 per cent makes it very brittle . The effect of phosphorus on iron is , to impart a coarsely crystalline structure , diminish its ...
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... harder and more fusible the metal becomes , and this effect is considerably increased by the presence of other bodies , such as phosphorus , sulphur , etc. Combination takes place when iron is heated in contact with gaseous fuel , such ...
... harder and more fusible the metal becomes , and this effect is considerably increased by the presence of other bodies , such as phosphorus , sulphur , etc. Combination takes place when iron is heated in contact with gaseous fuel , such ...
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acid added alloys containing aluminium amalgam annealing antimony arsenic bells bismuth brass Britannia metal brittle bronze cadmium carbon cast cast-iron cent copper cent of copper charcoal chemical choidal colour combination composition consists constituents cooling copper copper and tin crucible crystalline ductile elasticity employed Fcap following table fracture furnace fused fusible alloys German silver granular gray grayish Guettier gun-metal hammer hard harder impurities ingot iron lead liquid lustre malleable Mallet manganese manufacture melting point mercury mixed mixture molten metal mould nickel nitric acid obtained ordinary oxide oxidising oxygen phosphor-bronze phosphorus plate platinum polish poured powder prepared present produced Professor properties proportions pure readily red heat remelted resistance reverberatory furnace rolled sand silicate slag small quantity soft solder solidifying specific gravity square inch steel sulphide sulphur surface temperature tenacity thick Tombac toughness volatilised wire yellow zinc
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