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Excerpt from Iron and Steel: Their Sources, Varieties, Properties, and Manufacture, With Numerous Engravings and Diagrams
Cementation is a process in which a metal is made to take up a solid element, by being heated with it. In the metallurgy of Iron the principal example Is the carburising of malleable-iron, and the production of steel, by the prolonged exposure of the iron at a temperature below fusion, to the action of solid carbon. A similar action may go on in the blast furnace where the freshly reduced iron is in contact with the carbon of the fuel. Cold-short expresses a condition of iron or other metal in which when it is worked by hammering or rolling at or below a dull red-heat the edges crack or fracture according to the degree of the cold-shortness; perhaps such metal may be worked with the utmost facility at a higher temperature. Small quantities of phosphorus, silicon, arsenic, and antimony induce cold-shortness in iron or steel, phosphorus being the most common cause of this defect. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
