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alloy processing

  • 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: Increasing strength

    …case they are known as substitutional elements), or, if they are appreciably smaller than the matrix atoms, they may take up places between regular sites (where they are called interstitial elements).

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minerals

  • hot springs and epithermal veins
    In mineral deposit: Geochemically abundant and scarce metals

    …through the process of atomic substitution. This process involves the random replacement of an atom in a mineral by a foreign atom of similar ionic radius and valence, without changing the atomic packing of the host mineral. Atoms of copper, zinc, and nickel, for example, can substitute for iron and…

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  • azurite
    In mineral: Compositional variation

    Substitutional solid solution is the most common variety. For example, as described above, in the carbonate mineral rhodochrosite (MnCO3), Fe2+ may substitute for Mn2+ in its atomic site in the structure.

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