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  2. Ladle (metallurgy) - Wikipedia

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    Typically a transfer ladle will be used to transfer molten metal from a primary melting furnace to either a holding furnace or an auto-pour unit. Treatment ladle: a ladle used for a process to take place within the ladle to change some aspect of the molten metal. A typical example being to convert cast iron to ductile iron by the addition of ...

  3. Continuous casting - Wikipedia

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    One ladle is in the 'on-cast' position (feeding the casting machine) while the other is made ready in the 'off-cast' position, and is switched to the casting position when the first ladle is empty. From the ladle, the hot metal is transferred via a refractory shroud (pipe) to a holding bath called a tundish. The tundish allows a reservoir of ...

  4. Rube Goldberg machine - Wikipedia

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    The Chain Reaction Contraption Contest [6] is an annual event hosted at the Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in which high school teams each build a Rube Goldberg machine to complete some simple task (which changes from year to year) in 20 steps or more (with some additional constraints on size, timing, safety, etc.).

  5. Scientific visualization - Wikipedia

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    Rendering is the process of generating an image from a model, by means of computer programs. The model is a description of three-dimensional objects in a strictly defined language or data structure. It would contain geometry, viewpoint, texture, lighting, and shading information. The image is a digital image or raster graphics image. The term ...

  6. Ladle - Wikipedia

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    Ladle may refer to: Ladle (spoon), a bowl-shaped serving device for liquids such as soup; Ladle (metallurgy), a vessel used to carry, and pour molten metal;

  7. History of the compass - Wikipedia

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    Model of a Han dynasty (206 BC–220 AD) south-indicating ladle or sinan made of magnetized lodestones. [32] [33] These are noteworthy Chinese literary references in evidence for its antiquity: The magnetic compass was first invented as a device for divination as early as the Chinese Han dynasty and Tang dynasty (since about 206 BC).

  8. 30 Times People Were Shocked By What They Saw In ... - AOL

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    Image credits: MoonieNine In Suwon, South Korea, about 46 km south of Seoul, there's a house that's literally shaped like a giant toilet, called Haewoojae , which translates to "a place of relief."

  9. Crucible - Wikipedia

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    A modern crucible used in the production of silicon ingots via the Czochralski process Smaller clay graphite crucibles for copper alloy melting. A crucible is a container in which metals or other substances may be melted or subjected to very high temperatures.