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    A flask is a type of tooling used to contain a mold in metal casting. A flask has only sides, and no top or bottom, and forms a frame around the mold...
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    Sand casting, also known as sand molded casting, is a metal casting process characterized by using sand — known as casting sand — as the mold material...
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  • refrigerated drinks cold Flask (metal casting), a containing frame without a top or bottom, with sides only, used to hold molding sand Flask (web framework),...
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    In metalworking and jewelry making, casting is a process in which a liquid metal is delivered into a mold (usually by a crucible) that contains a negative...
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    built into a metal casting mold to prevent cavities due to shrinkage. Most metals are less dense as a liquid than as a solid so castings shrink upon cooling...
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    polystyrene foam, which is placed into a casting flask, consisting of a cope and drag, which is then filled with casting sand. The foam supports the sand, allowing...
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  • Ceramic mold casting, also known ambiguously as ceramic molding, is a group of metal casting processes that use ceramics as the mold material. It is a...
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    Cope and drag (category Casting (manufacturing))
    casting flask, used in sand casting. The flask is a wood or metal frame, which contains the molding sand, providing support to the sand as the metal is...
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    (3) allowing the metal to fill the entire mold. The vapor is simultaneously extracted from the flask through the sand. The casting is allowed to cool...
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    Investment casting is an industrial process based on lost-wax casting, one of the oldest known metal-forming techniques. The term "lost-wax casting" can also...
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  • A casting defect is an undesired irregularity in a metal casting process. Some defects can be tolerated while others can be repaired, otherwise they must...
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  • Semi-solid metal casting (SSM) is a near net shape variant of die casting. The process is used today with non-ferrous metals, such as aluminium, copper...
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  • higher cost. Green sand (like other casting sands) is usually housed in what foundry workers refer to as "flask", which are nothing other than boxes...
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    Lost-foam casting (LFC) is a type of evaporative-pattern casting process that is similar to investment casting except foam is used for the pattern instead...
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  • mold casting is a metal casting process similar to sand casting, in that molten metal is poured into an expendable mold. However, in shell mold casting, the...
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  • slip casting techniques employ a plaster block or flask mould. The plaster mould draws water from the poured slip to compact and form the casting at the...
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    Rodman gun (section Casting)
    continued flowing as the metal cooled. To further ensure that the gun cooled from the inside out, a fire was built around the iron flask containing the gun...
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  • flask with a measured amount of thermosetting resin and sand. Either way, the casting machine was stopped after the pipe had solidified and the flask...
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  • in the molten metal. When casting a reentrant angle, instead of using a core a cheek can be used. This is a third segment in the flask, in addition to...
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    to the expansion of the flask as it contacts the heat bath first. Soon after, the liquid in the flask is heated by the flask itself and begins to expand...
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    silver plate, rather than by casting. Early in the 17th century, it became fashionable to attach small beggars' bowls and flasks to medals. Around 1700, Jonghelinck's...
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    Dropping funnels have stopcocks which allow the fluids to be added to a flask slowly. For solids, a powder funnel with a wide and short stem is more appropriate...
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    sodium, and many other metals. Because iron is an exception, iron flasks have been traditionally used to trade mercury. Other metals that do not form amalgams...
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    Zinc (category Transition metals)
    Apelian, D.; Paliwal, M.; Herrschaft, D. C. (1981). "Casting with Zinc Alloys". Journal of Metals. 33 (11): 12–19. Bibcode:1981JOM....33k..12A. doi:10...
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  • high-volume orders. The goal with a tight-flask machine such as this is to create near net-shape castings, reducing the need for machining and other...
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    Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A crucible is a ceramic or metal container in which metals or other substances may be melted or subjected to very high...
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    laboratory setup A Schlenk line with four ports Graduated cylinders Erlenmeyer flask Glass is a ubiquitous material in optics because of its ability to refract...
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    protective or decorative coating of walls and ceilings and for moulding and casting decorative elements. In English, "plaster" usually means a material used...
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    is then placed in a casting flask, in its simplest form a topless and bottomless box split in half around its perimeter. The flask is placed on a board...
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    possibly meant to represent fabric. They each carry a poporo — a gourd-shaped flask that contained the lime that was chewed along with coca leaves. The smaller...
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