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Catalan hearth or forge used for smelting iron ore until relatively recent times. The method of charging fuel and ore and the approximate position of the nozzle supplied with air by a bellows are shown. Schematic diagram of a fluidized-bed roaster. blast furnace and hot-blast stove blast furnace A side-blown copper-nickel matte converter. Part of a modern potline based on the electrolytic Hall-Héroult smelting process. A basic oxygen furnace shop. Heap leaching of gold ore. Earth movers preparing the heap (background) and the drainage ditches for pregnant liquor (foreground). The commonest metallic crystal structures. A curved-mold continuous slab caster.
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Catalan hearth or forge used for smelting iron ore until relatively recent times. The method of charging fuel and ore and the approximate position of the nozzle supplied with air by a bellows are shown.
Catalan hearth or forge used for smelting iron ore until relatively recent times. The method of charging fuel and ore and the approximate position of the nozzle supplied with air by a bellows are shown.

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Charles Burroughs Gill
Emeritus Professor of Metallurgical Engineering, Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania. Author of Materials Beneficiation and others.
Charles Burroughs Gill,
Paul G. Shewmon
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Ohio State University, Columbus. Author of Transformations in Metals and others.
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metallurgy, art and science of extracting metals from their ores and modifying the metals for use. Metallurgy customarily refers to commercial as opposed to laboratory methods. It also concerns the chemical, physical, and atomic properties and structures of metals and the principles whereby metals are combined to form alloys. The present-day use of metals is the culmination of a long path of development extending over approximately 6,500 years. It is generally agreed that the first known metals were gold, silver, and copper, which occurred in the native or metallic state, of which the earliest were in all probability nuggets of ...(100 of 18633 words)

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