The Iron Giant

Imagine yourself in a world where your children are starving in your household. The breathless actions that you, as a parent, would do in order to prevent that child from starving would be meaningless. How? Well, for obvious reasons, there isn’t any food in neither your pantry nor the local grocery store. Not even in Walmart. You’re completely out of supplies, and find yourself useless as a parent. Your children are still grasping onto you for food and you have nothing. Is that the world you…

and prolonged periods of lactation deplete iron stores with each successive pregnancy and this is reflected in the high incidence of anaemia with higher parity. In women, using intrauterine contraceptive device , menorrhagia may result in further depletion of already poor stores of iron. * Chronic infection - tuberculosis, malignancy etc. Presence of persistent diarrhoea and worm infestations prevents absorption of iron. Apart from inadequate dietary iron intake, impaired absorption due to…

1-2. Properties of Materials 3-10. Manual Metal Arc Welding 11. Manual Inert Gas Welding 12. Tungsten Inert Gas Welding 13. Oxy-Acetylene Welding 14-15. Plastic Welding 16. Mechanical Methods of Joining Materials 17. Health and Safety 18. References Low Carbon Steel Low carbon steel is the most common form of steel with a low cost price while it provides material properties that are required for many applications. Low carbon steel contains a low carbon content and is therefore…

In steel, the presence of moisture and air, cause the Iron in steel to start oxidising and in turn forming Iron Oxide (Bayliss & Deacon 2002). This is not very effective for the intended use as vehicles are exposed to all types of weather conditions. On the other hand, the formation of an oxide on Aluminium is what allows it to be…

Introduction Silver, like gold, is found in a native state; frequently too it occurs as an alloy containing gold, which is recognized, when the silver is dissolved in nitric acid, as the black sediment or oxide of gold. Arsenic and antimony are found also alloyed with it. Several of the ores of lead and copper contain silver. As silver is a precious metal often used for coins, its mining has historically often been lucrative. As with other precious metals such as gold, newly discovered deposits…

CHAPTER 1 TIN OXIDE 1.1 Introduction Tin dioxide, also known by the systematic name tin(IV) oxide and stannic oxide in the older notation, is the inorganic compound with the formula SnO2. The mineral form of SnO2 is called cassiterite, and this is the main ore of tin. With many other names, this oxide of tin is the most important raw material in tin chemistry. This colorless, diamagnetic solid is amphoteric. 1.2 Structure It crystallises with the rutile structure, wherein the tin atoms are six…

Asbestos has played a pivotal role in the construction, electrical and automotive industries for many decades due to its excellent thermal and abrasive properties (Brandt 2008). The term asbestos comes from ancient Greek word meaning "inextinguishable". According to Hart (1988), the use of asbestos dates back to prehistoric times where asbestos fibers were woven into a fabric and used as wicks in oil lamps. Asbestos is a naturally occurring mineral which is mined from the earth’s crust. It…

1. Introduction Oxy Acetylene welding is one of many kinds of welding. The fundamental process is to joint two parts of metal becoming one part by a high temperature. The thermal flame is created by using the mixing of oxygen and acetylene gas (anthonycastronovo, nd) 2. Compatible materials are used for oxy acetylene welding: - Mild steel Aluminum, stainless steel, copper and brass. However these things are suitable for brazing process (anthonycastronovo, nd) 3. Before the welding procedure…

The primary focus of the lab was to understand the process and effects of cold working and annealing compared to a baseline sample. Cold working is a form of strain hardening in which metals are worked through the use of applied pressure, thereby making the metal harder[]. This applied pressure led to harder material by creating linear defects known as dislocations. The specific type of dislocation that occurred in this lab was an edge dislocation where an extra plane of atoms was inserted into…

once, for example sand mould casting, the lost-wax method and precision casting. For larger quantities of liquid metal, there are basically two methods: ingot casting and continuous casting. Ingot casting normally uses a permanent mould made by cast iron isolated by ceramic material. There are limitations with the ingot casting methods. The structure in the centre of the ingot will get coarse which decreases the strength of the metal and when casting larger quantities of metal the handling of…