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| Preface | |
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| Significance, History, and Sources of Materials | |
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| What materials are and their importance | |
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| Historical summary | |
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| Materials at present | |
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| The earth as the source of materials | |
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| Mining | |
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| Mineral processing | |
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| Concluding remarks | |
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| Chemical Thermodynamics | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Reversibility (or otherwise) of changes | |
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| Entropy | |
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| Free energy | |
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| Equilibrium | |
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| Significance of Ellingham diagrams | |
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| Predominance (Pourbaix) diagrams | |
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| Physical equilibria | |
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| Concluding remarks | |
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| Reaction Kinetics | |
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| Introduction and some definitions | |
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| Rate equations | |
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| Temperature effects | |
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| Mass transport and heterogeneous reactions | |
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| The case of the disappearing solid | |
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| The case of the shrinking core | |
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| Concluding remarks | |
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| Powders and Particles | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Characterization of particles | |
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| Characterization of agglomerates and compacts | |
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| Concluding remarks | |
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| Surfaces and Colloids | |
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| Significance of colloids in materials processing | |
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| Surface structure | |
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| Colloid interactions | |
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| Concluding remarks | |
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| Fundamentals of Heat Treatment and Sintering | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Transport of matter | |
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| Phase equilibria | |
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| Kinetics of phase changes | |
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| Sintering: an introductionX | |
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| Concluding remarks | |
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| Process Engineering | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Material and enthalpy balances | |
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| Recycles | |
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| Staged operations | |
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| Heat balances | |
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| Supply of heat to unit operations | |
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| Process control | |
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| Concluding remarks | |
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| High-Temperature Processing for the Production of Metals and Glass | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Thermodynamic considerations | |
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| Kinetic considerations and selectivity | |
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| Roasting | |
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| Reduction of oxides | |
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| Smelting and converting of sulfides | |
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| Steelmaking: preliminary refining technologies | |
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| Glassmaking | |
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| Concluding remarks | |
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| Hydrometallurgy and Electrometallurgy | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Leaching | |
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| Solution purification | |
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| Electrometallurgy | |
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| Concluding remarks | |
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| Refining, Solidification, and Finishing of Metals | |
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| Refining and alloying of metals | |
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| Solidification of metals | |
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| Finishing operations | |
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| Concluding remarks | |
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| Production of Powders | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Mechanical methods for powder production | |
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| Production of powders from solutions | |
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| Production of powders by solid-solid and gas-solid reactions | |
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| Production of metal powder | |
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| Production of other important ceramic powders | |
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| Concluding remarks | |
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| Powder Compaction | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Packing of particles | |
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| Powder compaction | |
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| Die compaction | |
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| Isostatic compaction | |
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| Casting methods | |
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| Extrusion methods | |
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| Sintering of Powder Compacts | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The sintering process | |
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| Sintering mechanisms | |
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| Driving forces for sintering | |
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| Densification by grain boundary diffusion | |
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| Densification by volume diffusion | |
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| Creep of porous solids and the shape factor F | |
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| Interrelation of various transport mechanisms: sintering maps | |
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| Densification of heterogeneous powder compacts: differential densification | |
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| Liquid-phase sintering | |
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| Concluding remarks | |
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| Microstructure Development During Sintering | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Grain growth | |
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| Pore evaluation during densification | |
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| Pore movement and pore breakaway | |
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| Concluding remarks | |
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| Densification Technology | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Free sintering or pressureless sintering | |
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| Pressure assisted sintering | |
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| Concluding remarks | |
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| Advanced Materials and Processes | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Rapid solidification | |
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| Production of silicon | |
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| Zone refining | |
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| Chemical vapor deposition | |
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| Preparation of composite materials from liquid metals | |
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| Surface modification processes | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Index | |