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BY a curious coincidence, three out of the eight papers presented at the recent autumn meeting of the Iron and Steel Institute deal with the effects of a gas or its compounds when present in iron or steel. The gases dealt with are oxygen, by Mr. Wesley Austin; nitrogen, by Prof. N. Tschischewski, of Tomsk; and blast-furnace gases, by Mr. T. H. Byrom. The prominence thus given to the question of the action of gases reflects the increasing attention which this subject demands in practice. During most ordinary manufacturing processes our metals are exposed—often for prolonged periods—to the action of gases, and a knowledge of their action is thus of great importance. The subject is, however, beset with difficulties, since in many cases it is not at all easy to prepare alloys containing a given gaseous element in any desired proportion, while even the analytical determination of the nitrogen or oxygen contents of steel is by no means free from doubt and difficulty.
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The Action of Gases on Iron and Steel . Nature 96, 380–381 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/096380b0
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