Conversion of an Investment Casting Sprue Wax to a Pattern Wax by Chemical Agents

Materials and Manufacturing Processes

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 753-768

  Taşcioǧlu, Senay ^a   Akar, Neşet ^a  

^a GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Additives; Investment casting; Mechanical properties; Molding materials; Pattern wax; Thermal properties

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVES; CHARCOAL; COLLOIDS; SILICON; SOLIDIFICATION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TENSILE STRENGTH; VISCOSITY; WAXES;

SURFACE CAVITIES;

INVESTMENT CASTING;

EID: 0242413896     PISSN: 10426914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/AMP-120024973     Document Type: Article

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