The coating of steel with a film composed largely of zinc phosphate in order to develop better bonding surface for paint or lacquer.

The only commercial ore of aluminum, corresponding essentially to the formula Al2O3xh3O.

A tendency to fracture without appreciable deformation.

Perfectly flat. As pertaining to sheet, strip or plate. (See Stretcher Leveling)

Surface discoloration on a metal, usually from a thin film of oxide or sulfide.

A process for applying a coating of metal to an object. The metal, usually in the form of wire, is melted by an oxyhydrogen or oxyacetylene blast or by an electric arc and is projected at high speed b [..]

Hardened, tempered, polished and blued or yellow flat steel with dressed edges. Carbon content about 1.00%. Material has to possess good flatness, uniform hardness and high elasticity.

Brittleness resulting from pickling steel in acid; hydrogen, formed by the interaction between iron and acid, is partially absorbed by the metal, causing acid brittleness.

A process of making steel, either Bessemer, open-hearth or electric, in which the furnace is lined with a siliceous refractory and for which low phosphorous pig iron is required as this element is not [..]

The term has no reference to the acidity of the steel. (See Acid Process.)