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The use of petrographic methods for the identification of non-metallic inclusions in steel (plates XIII to XVI)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

C. G. Nicholson
C. G. Nicholson*
Affiliation:
The Brown-Firth Research Laboratories, Sheffield 4
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Summary

It is shown that petrographic methods, using the microscope and micro-refractometer, can be a valuable aid in the identification of non-metallic inclusions in steel, even when their size is only a small fraction of a millimetre. Special ways of preparing the samples are given, and some of the methods used in examination are indicated. Natural chromite, corundum, merwinite, mutlite, quartz, rhodonite, spincls, and zircon are taken as examples of the minerals found.

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Research Article
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Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 32 , Issue 253 , June 1961 , pp. 790 - 801
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1961

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