hot-working

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metal shaping

  • Catalan hearth or forge used for smelting iron ore until relatively recent times. The method of charging fuel and ore and the approximate position of the nozzle supplied with air by a bellows are shown.
    In metallurgy: Processes

    This is called hot working, and under these conditions there is virtually no limit to the compressive plastic strain to which the metal can be subjected.

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