Word: metallically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most important feature of the new furnace is that contamination of the metal under study, by carbon or other impurities, can be entirely eliminated. The familiar carbon are reaches as high temperatures as the electron furnace; but as an experimental device the carbon arc is less effective because of uncontrollable carbon contamination...
There still remain forty metal groups whose alloy characteristics have yet to be studied, and whose possible industrial application is still in its infancy. Their development may mean as much to industry as the relatively recent development of such alloys as stainless steel, or tungsten carbide used in high speed machinery...
...working parts of the Harvard electron furnace are a small cylindrical metal cup, or crucible about one half inch in diameter and height; and two filament wires on opposite sides of the crucible...
...operation, the metal to be melted is placed in the crucible, and an air tight cylindrical hood, about 10 inches in diameter by 15 inches in height, is placed over all the parts. By a powerful vacuum pump, the pressure under the hood is reduced to about one billionth of ordinary atmospheric pressure...
...acre naval base off the little village of Rosyth to be scrapped. Sole passenger will be an auctioneer, housed in the Imperial Suite, listing her furnishings for public sale. Costing, with repairs and rebuilding, over $30,000,000, the Leviathan was sold to Sheffield and Glasgow metal firms for $732,000, plus an estimated $40,000 for the journey to the scrap yard. At the helm of a big ship for the last time, Captain Binks lamented: "I know ships of her type do not pay these days, with such vessels as the Normandie and the Queen Mary and other...