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Recovery of Crude Silver and Valuable Metals from Tin Anode Slime
Tin anode slime is a by-product of the crude tin electrolytic refining process. This study investigated a process to separate silver and valuable metals by sulfidation vulcanization roasting, and vacuum distil...
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Effect of Rare Earth Y Addition on the Microstructure and Properties of Stellite6/WC Coating by Laser Cladding
Forty five steel is a commonly used metal material in the machinery manufacturing industry. To improve the hardness and wear resistance of 45 steel, a Stellite6/WC Co-based alloy composite coating with rare ea...
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Study on the Evolution of Inclusions in Ce-Modified M50NiL Steel Through the CALPHAD Approach and a Novel Inclusion Prediction Condition
Rare earth (RE) elements serve as excellent modifiers for nonmetallic inclusions that inevitably appear in steel and significantly influence its properties. This study employed Thermo-Calc software to determin...
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Volume Fraction Effect on the Mechanical and Shape Memory Properties of NiTi Gyroid Lattice Structure Fabricated by Laser Powder Bed Fusion
The triply periodic minimal surface (TPMS) structure of NiTi has gained significant attention owing to its potential for reusable buffer devices. However, the manufactured NiTi TPMS structure still faces chall...
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Analysis of the Release Characteristics of Blast Furnace Lead Smelting Slag by Integrating Mineralogy and Dynamic/Static Leaching
Open piles of lead and zinc smelting slag threaten the environment due to their releasing harmful heavy metals (HMs). However, the unclear relationship between mineral composition and heavy metal release in bl...
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Thermodynamic Assessment of the CaO-SiO2-Sc2O3 Ternary System
Sustainable utilization of Sc2O3-containing metallurgical slag has attracted great interest in industries and the academic community in recent years. As the primary subsystem, the CaO-SiO2-Sc2O3 ternary system pl...
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In Situ SEM Investigation of Deformation Processes and Fracture Behavior in Bimodal Ti-6Al-3Nb-2Zr-1Mo Alloy
The deformation mechanism, crack initiation, propagation and fracture behavior of a new near-α titanium alloy Ti80 (Ti-6Al-3Nb-2Zr-1Mo) with a bimodal microstructure consisting of primary α (αp) grains and transf...
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Dramatically Improved Strength and Plasticity of Pure Magnesium Through Multi-Microalloying with Al, Ca, Mn, Zn, and Sn Elements
A novel low-alloy wrought Mg-0.26Sn-0.22Zn-0.16Ca-0.18Mn-0.06Al (named AXMZT00000, wt.%) without rare earth elements but with high performance was developed using multi-microalloying design and hot extrusion. ...
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Chlorination Behavior of Low-Grade Titanium Slag in AlCl3-NaCl Molten Salt
Aluminum chloride (AlCl3) is an effective chlorinating agent and catalyst for the chlorination of low-grade titanium slag to produce titanium tetrachloride in molten salts. In this paper, the chlorination behavio...
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The Deep Deoxygenation Behavior of Fine Hydrogenated Ti Alloy Powders
In this work, a novel thermochemical method was introduced to produce fine titanium alloy powders with low oxygen content by utilizing hydrogenated titanium alloy powders mixed with Ca and CaCl2 powders. The stab...
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Dynamic Simulation and Experimental Study of Magnesia Formed Between Magnesium Vapor and CO Under Vacuum
We report the behavior of Mg vapor and CO by dynamic simulation and an experimental study under vacuum. The results of the density functional theory indicated that the interaction of a single CO molecule with ...
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Preparation of Titanium Powders from TiO2 by Calcium Vapor Reduction
Preparation of Ti powders from TiO2 by calcium vapor reduction was investigated by x-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscope (SEM), element analysis instrument, inert gas fusion–infrared absorption sp...
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Silica behavior in the alumina carbothermic reduction-chlorination process
The behavior of silica was investigated experimentally in an alumina carbothermic reduction process and chlorination process in vacuum. The results showed that, first, SiC was produced by SiO2 and C, and then Al4