Glossary of technical terms for the use of metallurgical engineers Terms starting with alphabet ‘D’ Dalton’s law of partial pressures – It is a law which states that in a mixture of non-reacting gases, the total pressure exerted is equal to the sum of the partial pressures of the individual gases. It is closely related to the ideal gas laws. Dam …
Read MoreGlossary of technical terms for the use of metallurgical engineers Terms starting with alphabet ‘C’ Cable – It is a line made of rope, chain or wire which has different functions as per the application it is used for. It can either tie together two points or simply connect them, as in electricity conveyance or data …
Read MoreGlossary of technical terms for the use of metallurgical engineers Terms starting with alphabet ‘B’ Babbitt metal, Babbitt – It is a non-ferrous bearing alloy originated by Isaac Babbitt in 1839. Presently, the term includes several tin-base alloys consisting mainly of different quantities of copper, antimony, tin, and lead. Lead-base Babbitt metals are also used. …
Read MoreGlossary of technical terms for the use of metallurgical engineers Terms starting with alphabet ‘A’ A15 superconductors – The term A15 refers to a cubic crystal type in the Strukturbericht System represented by the example Cr3Si. The intermetallic A3B compound is formed by a body-centered cubic (bcc) arrangement of B atoms with two A atoms …
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