What Causes Spontaneous Combustion?
Spontaneous combustion causes many fires every year around the world but spontaneous combustion can be avoided by good house keeping, vigilance, and …
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Metal and Alloy Uses in Engineering, Domestic, and Medical Industries
An alloy may be described as a metal having more than one element, the other elements having been added to enhance the base metal’s properties …
Continue ReadingPeak Oil Theory
Peak oil is the point where the maximum rate of extraction from an oil producing nation’s reservoirs has been reached. Currently America and the UK …
Continue ReadingUnconventional Sources of Crude Oil - Oil from Shale
Crude oil can be produced from conventional sources such as oil reservoirs or from unconventional sources such as oil shale. Oil shale is sedimentary …
Continue ReadingCopper Smelting Process - Furnaces Used, By-Products, and Process Used to Smelt Copper
Historically, copper bearing ores contain only about 0.6% copper, the remainder being gangues or unwanted minerals. Chalcopyrite ore is in this range …
Continue ReadingAluminum Smelting Furnaces and Processing of Bauxite Ore
Aluminum is one of the most used metals in today’s industry, having properties of strength, durability, conductivity, lightness, and corrosion …
Continue ReadingGrinding and Lapping Compound or Paste: Clover & Polishing
Grinding pastes are used for controlled removal of metal, polishing, and fitting applications. They are used in various applications like fuel …
Continue ReadingDial Gauge or Dial Indicator: Sets, Points, Parts of Dial Gauges or Indicators
Dial indicators are important devices used in manufacturing and metal engineering among others. These devices measure small linear distances that are …
Continue ReadingCareers in Metrology: Metrology Jobs: Industrial, Scientific, Legal, Aerospace
Life seems impossible without metrology. Almost everything that we see everyday are products of metrology. It may just be a simple bathroom weighing …
Continue ReadingNon Destructive Testing - NTD of Welds
Welding is a well established process of joining metals together, and a great advancement on riveting. However, some welds failed when put under load, …
Continue ReadingUltrasonic Liquid Portable Flow Meter: Transit Time Meter for Pipes
Two types of ultrasonic flow meter are in common use to measure pipe flow rate. They are the doppler ultrasonic flow meter and the transit time …
Continue ReadingTypes of Milling Cutters
Milling tools are important components of the milling machine which are responsible for cutting the material or the workpiece. The cutting operation …
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