 | John Redman Coxe, Thomas Cooper - 1815 - 554 pages
...then melting it in a crucible with a flux composed of carbonaceous and vitrefiable ingredients. When thoroughly fused it is cast into ingots, which by...consequence is more brittle and fusible than before ; it is inferior to the other kinds of steel in being incapable of welding either with iron or steel,... | |
 | John Nicholson - 1825 - 838 pages
...prevents the access of the oxygen of the atmosphere. Broken glass is sometimes used for this purpose. When thoroughly fused it is cast into ingots, which by...closeness of grain, and is the material employed in all tbe finest articles of English cutlery. To make Edge-tools from cast Steel and Iron. — This method... | |
 | John Nicholson (civil engineer.) - 1825 - 1008 pages
...prevents the access of the oxygen of the atmosphere. Broken glass is sometimes used for this purpose. When thoroughly fused it is cast into ingots, which by...hammering', are tilted into bars. By this process tb« steel becomes more highly carbonized in proportion to the quantity of flux, and in consequence... | |
 | Charles Barlow - 1772 - 544 pages
...prevents the access of the oxygen of the atmosphere. Broken glass is sometimes used for this purpose. When thoroughly fused it is cast into ingots, which by...bars. By this process the steel becomes more highly carbonised in proportion to the quantity of fiux, and in consequence is more brittle and fusible than... | |
 | Colin MacKenzie - 1853 - 498 pages
...'.mosphcre. Broken glass it sonielimed used for this purpose. When thoroughly fused it is cast inlo ingots, which, by gentle heating and careful hammering, are tilted into bars. By this procesi the sleel be comes more highly carbonized in proportion to tht quantity of Hux, and in consequence... | |
 | Colin MacKenzie - 1867 - 510 pages
...prevents the access of the oxygen of the atmosphere. Broken glass is sometimes used for this purpose. When thoroughly fused it is cast into ingots, which, by...steel becomes more highly carbonized in proportion t« the quantity of flux, and in consequence is more brittle and fusible than before. Hence it earpasses... | |
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The verifiable ingredient is used ouly inasmuch as a fusible body, which flows over the surface of the metal in the crucibles, and prevents the access of the oxygen of the atmosphere. Broken glass is sometimes used for this purpose. When thoroughly fused... 