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Definition of Decarburizes
1. decarburize [v] - See also: decarburize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Decarburizes
Literary usage of Decarburizes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1915)
"... in the electric furnace reduction takes place in close proximity to the
pig-steel bath, some unreduced ore works down into the bath and decarburizes it. ..."
2. The Metallurgy of Iron and Steel: Theoretical and Practical: in All Its by Henry Stafford Osborn (1869)
"... it is contrary to all practical experience whatever The only virtue in the
ore is found in the oxygen of the ore, which decarburizes the cast iron, ..."
3. An Outline of the Metallurgy of Iron and Steel: Prepared for the Use of by Heinrich Oscar Hofman, Robert Hallowell Richards (1904)
"This is melted down in a charcoal hearth, which makes the iron white and decarburizes
part of it. It is now raised as a whole or in part above the level of ..."
4. Aircraft and Automobile Materials of Construction by Arthur William Judge (1920)
"Cast iron is melted in a “converter,” and a blast of air is then sent through
the molten metal; the oxygen of the air decarburizes (and oxidizes the silicon ..."
5. Report on Machinery and Processes of the Industrial Arts and Apparatus of by Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard (1869)
"The oxidizing action of the flame decarburizes and refines the pig iron, and,
after a certain time, a second quantity of pigs is thrown into the second dish ..."
6. Transactions by American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, Metallurgical Society of AIME, Society of Mining Engineers of AIME., Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration (U.S.). (1915)
"... the electric furnace reduction takes place in close proximity to the pig-steel
bath, some unreduced ore works down into the bath arid decarburizes it. ..."
7. United States Congressional Serial Set by United States Government Printing Office (1870)
"The oxidizing action of the flame decarburizes and refines the pig iron, and,
after a certain time, a second quantity of pigs is thrown into the second dish ..."
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