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  2. Brass - Wikipedia

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    Islamic Golden Age brass astrolabe Brass lectern with an eagle. Attributed to Aert van Tricht, Limburg (Netherlands), c. 1500.. Brass is an alloy of copper and zinc, in proportions which can be varied to achieve different colours and mechanical, electrical, acoustic and chemical properties, [1] but copper typically has the larger proportion, generally 2 ⁄ 3 copper and 1 ⁄ 3 zinc.

  3. Samovar - Wikipedia

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    Samovar in Tula, Russia. A samovar (Russian: самовар, IPA: [səmɐˈvar] ⓘ, lit. ' self-brewer ') is a metal container traditionally used to heat and boil water.. Although originating in Russia, the samovar is well known outside of Russia and has spread through Russian culture to other parts of Eastern Europe, as well as Western and Central and Sout

  4. Heat - Wikipedia

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    The molar heat capacity is the heat capacity per unit amount (SI unit: mole) of a pure substance, and the specific heat capacity, often called simply specific heat, is the heat capacity per unit mass of a material. Heat capacity is a physical property of a substance, which means that it depends on the state and properties of the substance under ...

  5. Sintering - Wikipedia

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    Heat and compaction fuse small particles into a dense bulk Clinker nodules produced by sintering Sintering or frittage is the process of compacting and forming a solid mass of material by pressure [ 1 ] or heat [ 2 ] without melting it to the point of liquefaction .

  6. Crucible - Wikipedia

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    During the Roman period a new process of metalworking started, cementation, used in the production of brass. This process involves the combination of a metal and a gas to produce an alloy. [10] Brass is made by mixing solid copper metal with zinc oxide or carbonate which comes in the form of calamine or smithsonite. [11]

  7. Bimetallic strip - Wikipedia

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    The invention of the bimetallic strip is generally credited to John Harrison, an eighteenth-century clockmaker who made it for his third marine chronometer (H3) of 1759 to compensate for temperature-induced changes in the balance spring. [1] Harrison's invention is recognized in the memorial to him in Westminster Abbey, England.

  8. Smelting - Wikipedia

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    Smelting uses heat and a chemical reducing agent to decompose the ore, driving off other elements as gases or slag and leaving the metal behind. The reducing agent is commonly a fossil-fuel source of carbon , such as carbon monoxide from incomplete combustion of coke —or, in earlier times, of charcoal . [ 1 ]

  9. Refractory metals - Wikipedia

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    Refractory metals, and alloys made from them, are used in lighting, tools, lubricants, nuclear reaction control rods, as catalysts, and for their chemical or electrical properties. Because of their high melting point, refractory metal components are never fabricated by casting. The process of powder metallurgy is used.