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THE discussion on "The Physical Chemistry of Process Metallurgy", which the Faraday Society held at Ashorne Hill, Warwickshire, during September 23-25, showed plainly that process metallurgy is now as much the province of the physical chemist as the metallurgist. Attention at this meeting was devoted almost entirely to the high-temperature processes involved in the winning and refining of metals, and here in particular it seems that advances will come mainly from the application of physical chemistry. Indeed, speaking as a steelmaker, Sir Andrew McCance (Colvilles, Ltd.) confirmed, in his introductory remarks, that the advances in the open-hearth process over the past twenty years have come almost entirely from the physico-chemical approach to open-hearth reactions. In this article it is intended to touch only upon the main topics of physico-chemical interest. In so short a space it is impossible to consider all the problems discussed, and reference will not be made to those papers concerned with industrial applications.
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RICHARDSON, F. Physical Chemistry Of Process Metallurgy. Nature 162, 719–721 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162719a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/162719a0