The ‘nitrox’ process basically supplies the surface hardness of the sursulf process, which is essentially carbonitriding, and then oxidizes it. The oxide is adherent and thus considerably increases the corrosion resistance.
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Nitrox
//ˈnaɪtɹɒks//
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12 translations across 10 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- نيتروكس noun (mixture of nitrogen and oxygen used as a breathing gas)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 高氧氣體 /高氧气体 noun (mixture of nitrogen and oxygen used as a breathing gas)
Finnish
1 entries- nitroksi noun (mixture of nitrogen and oxygen used as a breathing gas)
French
1 entries- nitrox noun (mixture of nitrogen and oxygen used as a breathing gas)
German
1 entries- Nitrox noun (mixture of nitrogen and oxygen used as a breathing gas)
Hebrew
1 entries- נייטרוקס noun (mixture of nitrogen and oxygen used as a breathing gas)
Italian
1 entries- nitrox noun (mixture of nitrogen and oxygen used as a breathing gas)
Persian
1 entries- نایتروکس noun (mixture of nitrogen and oxygen used as a breathing gas)
Russian
2 entries- найтрокс noun (mixture of nitrogen and oxygen used as a breathing gas)
- нитрокс noun (mixture of nitrogen and oxygen used as a breathing gas)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- nitroks noun (mixture of nitrogen and oxygen used as a breathing gas)
- nitrox noun (mixture of nitrogen and oxygen used as a breathing gas)
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Two other materials-based approaches may be employed in the present invention. One is to use highly doped glass (with boron or phosphorus) or plasma nitride (otherwise known as nitrox) as the inter-metal layer insulator.
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Carbonitriding processes are typically conducted in either a gas (ammonia) or a salt bath based on trade names such as Tufftride, Nitrotec, and Nitrox. Alternatively, a plasma nitriding process may be conducted.
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"Enriched air" or "nitrox" is a mixture of air and oxygen; the oxygen component ranges to about 50% but is used normally at 32 to 40%. [...] Safe enriched air nitrox diving practices established for the scientific diving community might be of some value and could help avoid accidents due to ignorance of its hazards and use of improper procedures.
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