Melting steel by electricity

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• Book ID: 103090308
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1882
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 57 KB
• Volume: 114
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(82)90430-6

✦ Synopsis

Melting Steel by Eleetrieity.--Dumas recently exhibited to the French Academy an ingot of steel, which Siemens had melted by an electric current in a crucible of magnesia at the Palais de l'Industrie, !n the British section of the Exposition. The fusion was completed in 14 minutes, requiring for the supply of the electrodynamic machine a less expenditure of coal than would have been needed for the direct melting in an ordinary furnace.--Comptes Rendus.

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