Meaning of dead-melt | Babel Free

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Forma verbal. Verb. [B2]

Examples

“...but if cast⟳ immediately it is found that a much larger quantity of gas separates during solidification, rendering the steel porous, than is evolved if the metal is dead-melted, i.e., allowed to remain⟳ melted for an extra half hour or more, presumably from the reaction of the iron⟳ oxide interspersed throughout the steel upon the carbon evolving carbon oxide during the earlier period...”

“A crucible-steel maker who knows his business can, and he will, always dead-melt his steel.”

“However, most producers either dead-melt their heats or oxygen-blow to burn silicon.”

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