What Makes a Precious Metal?
The now-omnipresent and affordable aluminum was once more expensive than gold. Treating it as precious and exotic, Emperor Napoleon III had aluminum cutlery made for state…
Global Aluminum Industry Production
Aluminum, despite being the most abundant metal in the earth’s crust, was once more valuable than gold, but now, it is inexpensive and, accordingly, abundant in…
Aluminum or Aluminium?
The chemical element classified on the Periodic Table with the atomic number 13 and symbol Al is a ductile, malleable silver-white metal. This metal is…
NACE SP0187-2017: Design Considerations for Corrosion Control of Reinforcing Steel in Concrete
Reinforced concrete simultaneously combines the compressive strength of concrete and the tensile strength of reinforcing steel to craft an especially durable building material. It is for…
ASTM A380-17: Cleaning and Passivation of Stainless Steel
Steel is not stainless, so stainless steel earns its corrosion-resistant properties through the interaction between its alloying elements and the environment. The exact composition of…
ASTM A123-17: Standard Specification for Zinc (Hot-Dip Galvanized) Coatings
Steel and iron often earn their rust-resistance through galvanization, which involves coating the material in zinc. There are several alternatives for carrying this out, but hot-dip…
Chemical Check Analysis Limits for Titanium and Titanium Alloys
Titanium practically sits on a pedestal when compared to other metals, an honor that it derives from having the highest tensile strength-to-density ratio of any…
Flame Atomic Absorption Spectrometric Method in the Determination of Aluminum in Iron Ores
ISO/TR 4688-1:2017 – Iron ores – Determination of aluminium – Part 1: Flame atomic absorption spectrometric method has been released. This technical report describes a…
Particle Testing Standards – Magnetic Particles
On the ANSI webstore, there are hundreds of standards for particle testing. Many of these standards deal with paints and powders as one would expect….