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    Welding slag is a form of slag, or vitreous material produced as a byproduct of some arc welding processes, most specifically shielded metal arc welding...
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    Shielded metal arc welding (SMAW), also known as manual metal arc welding (MMA or MMAW), flux shielded arc welding or informally as stick welding, is a manual...
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  • Flux-cored arc welding (FCAW or FCA) is a semi-automatic or automatic arc welding process. FCAW requires a continuously-fed consumable tubular electrode...
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    (waste) Dross Fly ash Ground granulated blast furnace slag Heavy metals Mill scale Pozzolan Slag (welding) Spoil tip Tailings Piatak, Nadine M.; Parsons, Michael...
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    Electroslag welding (ESW) is a highly productive, single pass welding process for thick (greater than 25 mm up to about 300 mm) materials in a vertical...
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    Arc welding is a welding process that is used to join metal to metal by using electricity to create enough heat to melt metal, and the melted metals, when...
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    Submerged arc welding (SAW) is a common arc welding process. The first SAW patent was taken out in 1935. The process requires a continuously fed consumable...
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    Oxy-fuel welding torch (commonly called oxyacetylene welding, oxy welding, or gas welding in the United States) and oxy-fuel cutting are processes that...
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    methods include solvent welding (of thermoplastics) using chemicals to melt materials being bonded without heat, and solid-state welding processes which bond...
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  • TRS-80 The Slag brothers, characters in the American animated television series Wacky Races Slag, the Dinobot in Transformers Slag (welding), a by-product...
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  • metalworking, a welding defect is any flaw that compromises the usefulness of a weldment. There are many different types of welding defects, which are...
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    Hyperbaric welding is the process of extreme welding at elevated pressures, normally underwater. Hyperbaric welding can either take place wet in the water...
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    Exothermic welding, also known as exothermic bonding, thermite welding (TW), and thermit welding, is a welding process that employs molten metal to permanently...
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    Gas metal arc welding (GMAW), sometimes referred to by its subtypes metal inert gas (MIG) and metal active gas (MAG) is a welding process in which an...
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    welders build their own welding tables. They are often made of steel, and some welding tables have a zinc plating to prevent slag from sticking to the table...
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    Thermite (category Welding)
    soon discovered the value of thermite in welding. The first commercial application of thermite was the welding of tram tracks in Essen in 1899. Red iron(III)...
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    the least amount of welding material possible. Butt welds are prevalent in automated welding processes, such as submerged-arc welding, due to their relative...
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  • Forge welding (FOW), also called fire welding, is a solid-state welding process that joins two pieces of metal by heating them to a high temperature and...
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    Firecracker welding is a rarely used form of shielded metal arc welding (SMAW). A flux-coated electrode, as used for SMAW (manual stick welding), is laid...
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    forge welding, since the silicate inclusions act as a flux and give the material its unique, fibrous structure. The silicate filaments in the slag also...
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    remediation in an aqueous environment. Dross Firescale Hammer paint Slag Slag (welding) Cunha, Adriano Ferreira da; Mol, Marcos Paulo Gomes; Martin's, Máximo...
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    2003, p. 287. Cmj Network, Inc (1959-06-25), "Riser filled by electro-slag welding", The New Scientist, 5 (136): 1383 Oberg, Erik; Jones, Franklin Day (1920)...
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  • X-ray welding is an experimental welding process that uses a high powered X-ray source to provide thermal energy required to weld materials. The phrase...
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  • light amount of slag is formed on the welding bead and the spatter loss is high. On the other hand, the gap filling and vertical down welding capability as...
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  • Cold metal transfer (category Welding)
    welding method that is usually performed by a welding robot. The CMT machine detects a short circuit which sends a signal that retracts the welding filler...
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    at high 'welding' temperatures. Iron treated this way is said to be wrought (worked), and the resulting iron, with reduced amounts of slag, is called...
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    Blacksmith (section Welding)
    concentrated in silicate slag trapped between the iron fibers. This slag produces a lucky side effect during forge-welding. When the silicate melts,...
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  • Shielding gas (redirect from Welding gas)
    that are commonly used in several welding processes, most notably gas metal arc welding and gas tungsten arc welding (GMAW and GTAW, more popularly known...
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    hammerscale is produced primarily during the process known as fire welding. Also known as forge welding, this technique is used to connect two pieces of metal by...
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    iron. Sir Humphry Davy conducted an experimental demonstration in 1810; welding was investigated by Pepys in 1815; Pinchon attempted to create an electrothermic...
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