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Word: konel (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1929-1929
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...Cleveland's Zay Jeffries as President of the American Society for Steel Treating, sponsors of the Congress. Mr. Guthrie's prediction followed his exposition on special furnaces in which gases are used to surface steel. Metals absorb gases, a phenomenon only now being put to industrial use. Konel Metal. News of a new and valuable alloy was despatched to the Congress by Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. Erwin Foster Lowry, 38, Michigan-born Ohio State graduate, had compounded nickel, cobalt and ferrotitanium. Result was a metal which grew stronger the hotter it was heated. Other metals become weaker with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Metal Congress | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

...Konel metal is not to be confused with monel metal, a copper-nickel alloy (plus small amounts of iron, carbon, manganese, silicon) developed in 1905. Monel metal is relatively soft, is valuable for its corrosion-resisting properties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Metal Congress | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

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