Re: Killed carbon steel

From: <Christopher>
Date: Wed Nov 21 2001 - 15:19:00 EST

>I heard today about Killed carbon steel, if any one
>knows about the meaning of that name please let me
>know.

Killed steel is deoxidized with aluminum or silicon so the oxygen doesn't react with the carbon when the molten steel solidifies.

Christopher Wright P.E.    |"They couldn't hit an elephant from
chrisw@skypoint.com        | this distance"   (last words of Gen.
___________________________| John Sedgwick, Spotsylvania 1864)
http://www.skypoint.com/~chrisw Received on Wed Nov 21 15:19:00 2001

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