Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The process of depriving of carbon: as, the decarburization of cast-iron (a process resorted to in order to convert cast-iron into steel, or to reduce it to the state of malleable iron). Also decarburisation, decarbonization.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act, process, or result of decarburizing.
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- noun The act, process, or result of
decarburizing .
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Examples
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This can be repeated several times, and it will probably be found that the proportion of carbon decreases as the test piece is reduced in diameter unless decarburization has taken place.
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Exact end-blow calculations will be carried out to achieve the targeted decarburization level in the steel bath on the basis of converter off gas analyses using the so-called Lomas measurement system.
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During oxygen blowing, this process model will also cyclically calculate the decarburization rate, the chemical composition of the steel and slag as well as the temperature of the liquid steel.
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Definition: A cast iron made by prolonged annealing of white iron in which decarburization, graphitization, or both take place to eliminate some or all of the cementite.
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(Zaporizhstal JSC) awarded Siemens VAI Metals Technologies a major contract for the supply of hot-metal desulphurization stations, LD steelmaking converters, ladle furnaces, a vacuum oxygen decarburization plant, dedusting facilities and slab casters for a new steel mill under construction in Zaporizhzhya, a city in southeastern Ukraine.
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This includes two hot-metal desulphurization stations, two 250-ton-capacity LD (BOF) oxygen steelmaking converters, two twin-station ladle furnaces, a VOD (vacuum oxygen decarburization) plant, two 2-strand slab casters, primary and secondary dedusting facilities and the related electrical and Level 1 and Level 2 automation systems.
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(c) Class III pipe wrap quality wire rod measuring 10.3 mm in cross-sectional diameter, with an average partial decarburization per coil of no more than 70 microns in depth, having no inclusions greater than 20 microns, free of injurious piping and undue segregation, having a heat tensile strength minimum of 170 ksi and a maximum of 177 ksi, and containing by weight the following elements in the proportions shown:
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-- if AISI grade 6150, having a partial decarburization of not more than 0.127 mm in depth, a zero ferrite (total) decarburization and a seam depth of not more than 1 percent of the diameter;
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(a) Tire cord quality wire rod measuring 5.0 mm or more but not more than 6.0 mm in cross-sectional diameter, with an average partial decarburization of no more than 70 microns in depth
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-- having a partial decarburization of not over 1.3 percent of the diameter of the rod, a zero ferrite (total) decarburization and seams of no more than 0.075 mm in depth, or
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