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Spectrochemistry in the Iron Foundry: X-Ray Fluorescence vs. Optical Emission

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

Richard Gast
Richard Gast*
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Deere & Company Technical Center, Moline, Illinois 61265
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The casting of iron is largely a chemical process: that is, the chemistry of molten iron greatly influences the properties of finished castings. Other parameters - casting design, mold integrity, inoculation practice, pouring temperature, and shakeout procedure - are also vital to consistent production. But if the chemistry is wrong, the probability of defective castings is high. For this reason, control of chemical composition has long been a major objective of foundrymen.

To be useful for either process control or quality assurance checking, analytical work must be reliable and accurate. Data should also be available in a minimal period of time to make possible the on-line adjustments necessary to achieve proper chemistry, and thus the desired properties, in the final castings.

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Advances in X-Ray Analysis , Volume 21: Twenty-Sixth Annual Conference on Applications of X-ray Analysis, August 3-5, 1977 , 1977 , pp. 35 - 42
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Copyright © International Centre for Diffraction Data 1977

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