Sherardizing


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sherardizing

[shə′rär‚dīz·iŋ]
(metallurgy)
Coating iron with zinc by tumbling the article in powdered zinc at about 250-375°C.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Sherardizing

a galvanizing process in which steel items are heated in zinc dust at 340°–400°C to produce a diffusion surface layer. The process is carried out in a rotating or rocking container. It was proposed by the British scientist Sherard Cowper-Coles in 1900.

The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979). © 2010 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Uniform: Sherardizing is a proven anti-corrosion Zinc coating which, when correctly specified and applied, gives a resilient and uniform defence against the corrosion of the base metal, making Sherardizing an ideal coating for small components in addition to irregularly shaped and recessed components with close dimensional tolerances.
Sherardizing provides a highly effective long term coating which is competitive on an initial cost basis.
Sherardizing involves no sources of hydrogen and therefore provides a coating method which is free of sources of embrittlement is suitable for use even in high tensile steels.

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