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6. The birth and development of pocket metallurgy
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At the end of the Second World War, the processing of liquid steel outside the melting furnace was limited to two very specific types of application:
vacuum degassing of special steels, mainly to eliminate hydrogen, the cause of brittle fractures;
stirring of steel during ladle casting with a separately melted deoxidizing and desulfurizing slag: the Perrin process used mainly by Ugine .
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At the beginning of the 1950s, tests were carried...
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- (1) - - World Steel Association. – Steel Statistical Yearbooks, http://www.worldsteel.org .
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