Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics: a dictionary of mechanical engineering and the mechanical arts (1880)
D. Appleton and Company, Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 844
silica-sand, baked in layers, and are repaired after eachheat by adding sand wdiere required. The Process.—(1.) In the scrap process, the furnace having been highly heated, the pig iron is STEEL. 809 charged and melted, and the scrap or uncarburized material is then added, a little at a time;… … while the rest is heating. In this method, the scrap may be somewhat more wasted by oxidation, butthe oxide of iron thus formed is not lost; it operates like ore in the ore process. This method alsosaves the auxiliary furnace and the rehandling of the scrap. As already indicated, the oxidizingflame…
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