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METALLURGY is the art of extracting metals from their ores, refining them, and working them up into finished products for the use of mankind at a profit. The inevitable corollary of this is that the economic factor is always decisive as to the applicability or otherwise of any new scientific discovery which bears upon the industry. The art is one of the oldest in the world, but in spite of its highly diversified character and the profound influence that scientific methods have had upon its scope and technique, it does not differ to-day in essence from the ancient art except in the fact that to an ever-increasing extent the applications of science are found to be payable.
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CARPENTER, H. The Trend of Modern Metallurgy. Nature 104, 243–245 (1919). https://doi.org/10.1038/104243a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/104243a0