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A Primer on deoxidation

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What is it? Why do you do it? How do you do it? These questions and many more are here answered, in language any steelmaker can understand, by the author of “The Nonmetallic Constituents of Steel,” this year’s Howe Memorial Lecture.

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  1. Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, Ohio, USA

    Clarence E. Sims (Consultant)

  2. Steel Founders’ Society of America, Cleveland, USA

    Charles W. Briggs (Technical and Research Director)

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Sims, C.E., Briggs, C.W. A Primer on deoxidation. JOM 11, 815–822 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03397843

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