7th Edition

ISBN: 9780133128741

Author: Serope Kalpakjian, Steven Schmid

Publisher: Prentice Hall

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Corrosion may be defined as the method in which metals are attacked on their exteriors by gases existing in the atmosphere, converting them to their oxides, nitrides, sulfides, etc.

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Chapter 6, Problem 25QLP

If tungsten is the highest melting-point metal, why are no high temperature parts in Fig. 6.1 made from tungsten?

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