Deadmelt
noun, verb
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 The process of deadmelting steel.
"My proposition is to take otherwise finished steel from the Bessemer or open-hearth furnace, and hold it liquid, let us say thirty minutes, giving the oxides a chance to float up and the steel a chance to rest, thus giving it the equivalent of the deadmelt in the crucible."
Verb
- 1 To melt steel at high temperatures in order to deoxidize it.
"At 0.09 per cent. carbon the bath is usually underdone.” because a relatively high temperature is required to deadmelt at this carbon."
Example
More examples"At 0.09 per cent. carbon the bath is usually underdone.” because a relatively high temperature is required to deadmelt at this carbon."
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