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Excerpt from Metallurgy of Cast Iron: A Complete Exposition of the Processes Involved in Its Treatment, Chemically and Physically, From the Blast Furnace Through the Foundry to the Testing Machine
Following the seventieth chapter, the work is closed with a few tables and an index. The first table gives the net weight of pig iron in gross tons of pounds, ranging from one to one hundred tons. The second table presents the full names of chemical prop erties in metal, accompanied with their abbreviations or symbols as generally written by chemists. The tables following are copied from Messrs. Cremer and Bicknell's Handbook for Chemical and Metallurgical Practice. 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.
