It is a white metal of bluish tint and is malleable and ductile.
The chemical kind of annealing is specifically that employed in the manufacture of malleable cast iron.
Malleable iron castings, articles cast from pig iron and made malleable by heating then for several days in the presence of some substance, as hematite, which deprives the cast iron of some of its carbon.
It is both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity, and is used for tubes, sheets, bullets, etc.
Thus, when heated it ismalleable and ductile, and can be easily welded and forged at a high temperature.
In appearance it resembles zinc, being white or lead gray, soft, malleable and easily fusible, but in its chemical relation it resembles aluminium or gallium.
Ostberg, for producing malleableiron castings by melting wrought iron, to which from 0.
The works where wrought iron is produced directly from the ore, or where iron is rendered malleable by puddling and shingling; a shingling mill.
Defn: An elementary substance found as an oxide in the mineral cassiterite, and reduced as a soft white crystalline metal, malleable at ordinary temperatures, but brittle when heated.
Defn: A light silver-white metallic element, malleable and ductile, quite permanent in dry air but tarnishing in moist air.
A bar or wedge of steel, gold, or other malleable metal, cast in a mold; a mass of unwrought cast metal.
Defn: To shape, as malleable sheet metal, into a hollow form, by bending or buckling it by pressing against it with a smooth hand tool or roller while the metal revolves, as in a lathe.
It is isolated as a yellowish metal, somewhat malleable but harder than calcium.
Malleable iron, iron that is capable of extension or of being shaped under the hammer; decarbonized cast iron.
Heated to a dull red delta metal becomes malleable and can be worked under the hammer, press or stamps.
The most malleable of the series has an elongation of about 60%, with a tensile strength of 17.
The principal industries of Branford are the manufacture of malleable iron fittings, locks and general hardware, the quarrying of granite, and oyster culture.
He is also president of the Cleveland Malleable Iron Works, the first of the kind in this part of the country, and which at present promises well.
A light silver-white metallic element, malleableand ductile, quite permanent in dry air but tarnishing in moist air.
An old piece of ordnance built of staves of malleable iron, cask fashion, and known as Mons Meg, stands conspicuous in an open area.
Lead= is the softest, heaviest, most malleable and most easily melted of the common metals.
It is malleableand ductile, may be forged cold as well as hot, but is not susceptible of rolling; it may, however, be drawn into tubes.
It is very malleable and ductile, and is remarkable for its resistance to oxidation, being unaffected by moist or dry air, or by hot or cold water.
One part of it to 100 parts of gold gives a hard, malleablealloy of a greenish gold color, and an alloy of ¾ iron and ¼ aluminum does not oxidize when exposed to a moist atmosphere.
In many other cases the same metal, in different states, contains more or less phlogiston, as cast iron, malleable iron, and steel.
Zinc is a semi-metal of a bluish cast, brighter than lead, and so far malleableas not to be broken by a hammer, though it cannot be much extended.
The native shining and malleable metals (gold, silver, and copper) naturally first attracted the attention of man.
I shall designate them asmalleable metals or weapon bronzes.
Eighteen hundred years ago, the inventor was crucified--lest his malleable glass should injure Ephesian or other silversmiths.
And it is absolutely necessary, in order to apply any useful alloy of iron, carbon and manganese, in the manufacture of malleable iron and very soft steel that the manganese should be largely in excess of the carbon present.
These are ofmalleable cast iron, with an internal vertical flange around the hole A.
Strong malleableiron bars for supporting the framings of the marine steam-engine.
Those which are of malleable metal, as copper, wrought iron, &c.
The shaft, about thirty inches long, was of the best malleable iron, so soft that it would tie into a knot and straighten out again without fracture.
These lances were slender spears of malleable iron about four feet long, with oval or heart-shaped points of fine steel about two inches broad, their edges kept keen as a surgeon's lancet.
To shape, as malleable sheet metal, into a hollow form, by bending or buckling it by pressing against it with a smooth hand tool or roller while the metal revolves, as in a lathe.
An elementary substance found as an oxide in the mineral cassiterite, and reduced as a soft white crystalline metal, malleable at ordinary temperatures, but brittle when heated.
Fleitman, in Germany, succeeded also in rendering nickel malleableby using magnesium instead of manganese.
The process of rendering nickel malleable is due to Messrs.
Iron castings are also annealed by packing with cinders in a box, which is then heated for some time, as with the malleable cast iron.
It is less malleable when it contains carbon than when pure.
In many parts of the earth masses of malleable iron, often of vast size, have been found.
The Manufacture ofMalleable Iron Castings, and Improvements in Bessemer Steel.
A new Edition, to which is added a Supplement on Statuary and Ornamental Moulding, Ordnance, Malleable Iron Castings, etc.
