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... proportion , its capacity for draught . The flues to the stack are usually in the highest part of the hood ; but as this arrangement frequently leads to smoking , it is a good plan to have either an iron pipe or a brick channel leading ...
... proportion , its capacity for draught . The flues to the stack are usually in the highest part of the hood ; but as this arrangement frequently leads to smoking , it is a good plan to have either an iron pipe or a brick channel leading ...
Page 161
... proportions above given . For some descriptions of iron , charcoal alone makes the best cement . In such cases , the wood of the gum , poplar , sassafras , & c . , which make but little ashes , should be charred . Charcoal made from ...
... proportions above given . For some descriptions of iron , charcoal alone makes the best cement . In such cases , the wood of the gum , poplar , sassafras , & c . , which make but little ashes , should be charred . Charcoal made from ...
Page 165
... proportion to the amount of sand in the admixture . Good fire - brick is perhaps the best material for chests ; and here Pittsburgh has a decided advantage in its Johnstown brick . A similar brick , known as the Mount Savage fire ...
... proportion to the amount of sand in the admixture . Good fire - brick is perhaps the best material for chests ; and here Pittsburgh has a decided advantage in its Johnstown brick . A similar brick , known as the Mount Savage fire ...
Page 214
... proportions , the new matter formed from the combi- nation is imperfect . Such imperfect matter does not show that beauty , that finish in all its parts , which it would possess if the elementary or combining atoms were in exact ...
... proportions , the new matter formed from the combi- nation is imperfect . Such imperfect matter does not show that beauty , that finish in all its parts , which it would possess if the elementary or combining atoms were in exact ...
Page 229
... be replaced by other kinds of cheap steel made by more recent methods , although we believe in the superiority of the puddling furnace for the treatment of pig - metals holding a large proportion of IMPROVEMENTS IN STEEL . 229.
... be replaced by other kinds of cheap steel made by more recent methods , although we believe in the superiority of the puddling furnace for the treatment of pig - metals holding a large proportion of IMPROVEMENTS IN STEEL . 229.
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alloy annealing anvil atoms bars Bessemer process Bessemer steel blast blistered steel borax bottom brick brittle cake CAREY BAIRD'S CATALOGUE cast cast-iron cast-steel cement cent charcoal chemical cinder clay coal color combined contain converted cooled crucible Damascus steel decarburization degree of hardness degree of heat fagot feet fire fire-brick flues fluid flux forge-fire forged and welded fracture fuel gases German steel hammer hardened hearth HENRY CAREY HENRY CAREY BAIRD'S impurities inches kind of steel less malleability manganese manufacture of steel Martin process material matter melted metal molten mould natural steel operation oxygen phosphorus pieces pig metal pig-iron pig-metal plates pots pounds powder Practical produced proportion of carbon puddling furnace pure iron quantity refining requires reverberatory furnace scraps shear shear-steel silex silicon soft spiegeleisen Styria sufficient sulphur surface Sweden tempering tenacity thick tilt tuyere uniform welded wood wootz wrought wrought-iron
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