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An Automatic Device for the Determination of Oxygen in Steel

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IN recent years there has been a considerable interest in analytical methods for the determination of gases in metals, and there are numerous techniques available for this purpose, for example, vacuum fusion and hot-extraction methods; systems involving the 16O(n p)16N reaction, and others dependent on the liberation of the gases by means of a d.c. arc followed by gas chromatographic or spectrographic measurements.

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WEBB, M., WEBB, R. An Automatic Device for the Determination of Oxygen in Steel. Nature 201, 487–488 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/201487a0

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