Metals Their Properties And Treatment Electronic Resource
Metals Their Properties And Treatment Electronic Resource
Charles Loudon Bloxam
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Tin is so little acted upon or corroded by air or by weak acids, that it is employed as a coating to protect the surfaces of other metals, such as iron, copper, and brass. Tin-plate is iron covered with a thin coating of tin, and since its manufacture is an important branch of English industry, an outline of it may be here given. Manufacture of Tin-plate. The sheet iron employed for the manufacture of the best tin-plate is refined with charcoal (p. 51), though iron refined with coke is sometime...s em- ployed, the tin-plate being distinguished accordingly as char- coal-plate and coke-plate. The last term, however, now usually refers to plate which has been made from puddled iron. A somewhat red-short (p. 69) iron from the Forest of Dean is extensively employed for the purpose, being possessed of great toughness when cold. In order to obtain iron plates of the required thickness, the bars, |ths of an inch thick, are cut into pieces 15 inches long and 6 inches wide. Each of these, having been heated Manufacture of Tin Plate.
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