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view moreSome alloys, such as electrum—an alloy of silver and gold—occur naturally. Meteorites are sometimes made of naturally occurring alloys of iron and nickel, but are not native to the Earth.One of the first alloys made by humans was bronze, which is a mixture of the metals tin and copper.Bronze was an extremely useful alloy to the ancients, because it is much stronger and …
view moreHeavy mineral sands are a class of ore deposit which is an important source of zirconium, titanium, thorium, tungsten, rare-earth elements, the industrial minerals diamond, sapphire, garnet, and occasionally precious metals or gemstones.. Heavy mineral sands are placer deposits formed most usually in beach environments by concentration due to the specific gravity of the …
view moreMicrosoft has responded to a list of concerns regarding its ongoing $68bn attempt to buy Activision Blizzard, as raised by the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), and come up with an ...
view moreExtraction of Metals: The purpose of Isolation of Elements in Chemistry Class 12 is to teach students about different methods of extracting metals from ores.Only a few metals, such as noble metals such as gold, silver, and platinum, are found in their natural metallic forms. Metallurgy is the branch of science that deals with extracting metals from ores that are present …
view moreSmelting is a process of applying heat to ore, to extract a base metal. It is a form of extractive metallurgy.It is used to extract many metals from their ores, including silver, iron, copper, and other base metals.Smelting uses heat and a chemical reducing agent to decompose the ore, driving off other elements as gases or slag and leaving the metal base behind.
view moreRoasting is a process of heating a sulfide ore to a high temperature in the presence of air. It is a step in the processing of certain ores.More specifically, roasting is often a metallurgical process involving gas–solid reactions at elevated temperatures with the goal of purifying the metal component(s). Often before roasting, the ore has already been partially purified, e.g. by froth ...
view moreHydrometallurgy is a technique within the field of extractive metallurgy, the obtaining of metals from their ores.Hydrometallurgy involve the use of aqueous solutions for the recovery of metals from ores, concentrates, and recycled or residual materials. Processing techniques that complement hydrometallurgy are pyrometallurgy, vapour metallurgy, and molten salt …
view moreEarth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.While large volumes of water can be found throughout the Solar System, only Earth sustains liquid surface water.About 71% of Earth's surface is made up of the ocean, dwarfing Earth's polar ice, lakes, and rivers.The remaining 29% of Earth's surface is land, consisting of continents and …
view moreThey are also weakly magnetic. However, if their magnetic susceptibilities are …
view moretitanium processing, the extraction of titanium from its ores and the preparation of titanium alloys or compounds for use in various products. Titanium (Ti) is a soft, ductile, silvery gray metal with a melting point of 1,675 °C (3,047 °F). Owing to the formation on its surface of an oxide film that is relatively inert chemically, it has excellent corrosion resistance in most natural ...
view moreU.S. Patent 0,485,840 – Method of Bricking Fine Iron Ores U.S. Patent 0,485,841 – Method of Magnetically Separating Ores U.S. Patent 0,485,842 – Method of Magnetic-Ore Separation
view moreProcess of concentration depends upon physical and chemical properties of ores. Gravity separation, ... Magnetic separation helps in separating non-magnetic materials from magnetic materials. This method can be applied to separate impurities from iron ore because iron is a magnetic material. Froth floatation process involves producing froth in ...
view moreIntroduction. In the early 1990s, Moli and Sony used carbon materials with graphite structure to replace metal lithium anodes, and lithium and transition metal composite oxide such as LiCoO 2 served as the cathodes, leading to the commercialization of LIBs (Arora et al., 1998; Song et al., 1999; Lee and Lee, 2000; Pattipati et al., 2014).With the popularity of …
view moreThe history of chemistry represents a time span from ancient history to the present. By 1000 BC, civilizations used technologies that would eventually form the basis of the various branches of chemistry. Examples include the discovery of fire, extracting metals from ores, making pottery and glazes, fermenting beer and wine, extracting chemicals from plants for medicine and …
view moreHydrogen sulfide is a chemical compound with the formula H 2 S.It is a colorless chalcogen-hydride gas, and is poisonous, corrosive, and flammable, with trace amounts in ambient atmosphere having a characteristic foul odor of rotten eggs. The underground mine gas term for foul-smelling hydrogen sulfide-rich gas mixtures is stinkdamp.Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm …
view moreS + O 2 → SO 2. 4 P + 5 O 2 → 2 P 2 O 5. Roasting is the process of heating iron ore strongly in dry air for drying the ore and expelling humidity, It is used to increase the percentage of iron in the ore and for the oxidation of some impurities such as sulphur and phosphorus.. Roasting of iron is very important in the ore dressing process but this process …
view moreExtractive metallurgy is a branch of metallurgical engineering wherein process and methods of extraction of metals from their natural mineral deposits are studied. The field is a materials science, covering all aspects of the types of ore, washing, concentration, separation, chemical processes and extraction of pure metal and their alloying to suit various applications, …
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view moreA crusher is a machine designed to reduce large rocks into smaller rocks, gravel, sand or rock dust.. Crushers may be used to reduce the size, or change the form, of waste materials so they can be more easily disposed of or recycled, or to reduce the size of a solid mix of raw materials (as in rock ore), so that pieces of different composition can be differentiated.
view moreMining in the engineering discipline is the extraction of minerals from underneath, open pit, above or on the ground. Mining engineering is associated with many other disciplines, such as mineral processing, exploration, excavation, geology, and metallurgy, geotechnical engineering and surveying.A mining engineer may manage any phase of mining operations, from exploration …
view more9.3.3.2 Iron Ores 9.95 The Soudan Iron Formation in northern Minnesota. Hammer for scale. Sedimentary ore deposits also form by chemical precipitation; banded iron formations (BIF), found in Precambrian shields, are examples. Photos of BIF are seen here in Figure 9.95, and also in Figure 7.77 (Chapter 7). Banded iron formations are massive in ...
view moreA metal (from Greek μέταλλον métallon, "mine, quarry, metal") is a material that, when freshly prepared, polished, or fractured, shows a lustrous appearance, and conducts electricity and heat relatively well. Metals are typically ductile (can be drawn into wires) and malleable (they can be hammered into thin sheets). These properties are the result of the metallic bond between the ...
view moreMagnetic gradient survey - A geophysical survey using a pair of magnetometers a fixed distance apart, to measure the difference in the magnetic field with height above the ground. Magnetic separation - A process in which a magnetically susceptible mineral is separated from gangue minerals by applying a strong magnetic field; ores of iron are ...
view morecobalt processing, preparation of the metal for use in various products.. Below 417 °C (783 °F), cobalt (Co) has a stable hexagonal close-packed crystal structure. Of the three common ferromagnetic metals (iron, nickel, and cobalt), cobalt has the highest Curie point (that is, the temperature above which its magnetic properties are weakened). It is unique in that, added in …
view moreMagnetic separator separates the iron ore feed material into two or more components. If the purpose is to produce a magnetic concentrated iron ore then the other component which is non-magnetic is the tailings. In …
view moreTitanium dioxide, also known as titanium(IV) oxide or titania / t aɪ ˈ t eɪ n i ə /, is the inorganic compound with the chemical formula TiO 2.When used as a pigment, it is called titanium white, Pigment White 6 (PW6), or CI 77891. It is a white, water-insoluble solid, although mineral forms can appear black. As a pigment, it has a wide range of applications, including paint, sunscreen ...
view more1.Single magnetite. Most of the iron minerals in a single magnetite ore are …
view moreIn chemistry and manufacturing, electrolysis is a technique that uses direct electric current (DC) to drive an otherwise non-spontaneous chemical reaction. Electrolysis is commercially important as a stage in the separation of elements from naturally occurring sources such as ores using an electrolytic cell.The voltage that is needed for electrolysis to occur is called the …
view moreSlag is a by-product of smelting (pyrometallurgical) ores and used metals. Broadly, it can be classified as ferrous (by-products of processing iron and steel), ferroalloy (by-product of ferroalloy production) or non-ferrous/base metals (by-products of recovering non-ferrous materials like copper, nickel, zinc and phosphorus). Within these general categories, slags can be further …
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