cementation process in a sentence
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- The Romans produced considerable quantities of brass ( an alloy of zinc and copper ) as early as 200 BC by a cementation process where copper was reacted with zinc oxide.
- The cementation process continued to be used but literary sources from both Europe and the Islamic world seem to describe variants of a higher temperature liquid process which took place in open-topped crucibles.
- In the early modern period, brass, an alloy of copper and zinc, was usually produced by a cementation process in which metallic copper was heated with calamine, a zinc ore, to make calamine brass.
- Blister steel was made from wrought iron by packing wrought iron in charcoal and heating for several days . See : Cementation process The blister steel could be heated and hammered with wrought iron to make shear steel, which was used for cutting edges like scissors, knives and axes.
- Comprehensive accounts of the salt cementation processes is given by; Biringuccio in his " The Method of cementing gold and of Bringing it to its Ultimate Fineness . "; in the " Probierbuchlein " Little Books on Assaying; by Georgius Agricola in book 10 of De Re Metallica; and by Ercker in his " Treatise on ores and assaying ".