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    FERROUS AND NON-FERROUS ALLOYS Unit – 7   Ferrous: Iron based alloys Non-ferrous: other than ferrous alloys with no iron content FERROUS METALS AND ALLOYS What is a ‘ferrous metal’ or ‘ferrous alloy’?  It is simply a metal or alloy that contains Iron (the element ferrous) as the base (starting) metal.   26th element  Iron or Ferrous  55.85 Atomic Mass GENERAL CATEGORIES OF FERROUS METALS AND ALLOYS      Carbon and alloy steels Stainless steel Tool and Die steel Cast Irons Cast

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    Title: “The Thinker” Artist: August Rodin Source: Rodin‚ A. (1902). The thinker [Bronze and marble sculpture]. Paris‚ France: Musée Rodin. The “The Thinker” is a bronze sculpture by August Rodin which is placed on a stone pedestal. The work shows a nude male figure sitting on a rock with its chin resting on one hand as though he was deep in thought. The sculpture was originally made as an entranceway for the proposed Musee des Arts Decoratifs in Paris. The thinker is at its current location the Musee

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    natural stance‚ which makes him look life like. It is very interesting to see how the Greeks knew the human body well enough to be able to sculpt the perfect proportions on a medium like marble or bronze. The Atemision Zeus is made out of Bronze‚ which was one of the preferred methods to sculpting because bronze was fairly easy to mold. The height of this Zeus sculpture is 6’10” and that again demonstrates how these sculptures were made to look very grand and

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    The Element Tin

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    This silvery‚ ductile metal is not easily oxidized in air and resists corrosion. Tin is usually malleable‚ but when cooled it is very brittle. It is found in many alloys and is used to coat other metals. It can be alloyed with copper to make bronze. Pewter alloys contain about 85% to 99% tin. Tin is obtained from the mineral ore cassiterite‚ where it occurs as an oxide. It is extracted by roasting cassiterite in a furnace with carbon. Tin makes up only about 0.001% of the earth’s crust and

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    Natalia Kuchinskaya

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    At the 1966 World Championship she won three Gold medals‚ two silver medals and one Bronze medal. At the 1968 Summer Olympics she won two Gold medals and two Bronze metals. She received two Gold medals on the Balance Beam and Team. She also received two bronze medals for All around and Floor exercise. Kuchinskaya earned a legion of Mexican fans. Mariachi singers serenaded Kuchinskaya with a tune called "Natalie" throughout

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    he received artistic training from a local goldsmith. Later in 1403‚ around the age of 17‚ Donatello apprenticed with Florence metal smith and sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti. A few years later‚ Donatello assisted Ghiberti to create the bronze doors for the Baptistery of the Florence Cathedral. After working with Ghiberti; Donatello started his career by working with Brunelleschi. The two of them went to Rome and studied classical art. At the end of the trip‚ Donatello had a deep understanding

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    planetary home‚ especially if not kept healthy and maintainable. The dried cod became a vital economic product and main of the Portuguese intake. The Portuguese found Muslim merchants entrenched along the African coast. The Slave Coast‚ as the Bight of Benin‚ was searched by the Portuguese since the 1470s. It was not until they reached the kingdom of kongo’s coast in the 1480s that they overdid the Muslim trading territory. Also during the 16th century‚ the Portuguese also started to settle their newly

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    Oedipus the King

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    of Time: The Oedipus Tyrannus and Macbeth." Exploring Shakespeare. Online ed.  Detroit: Gale‚ 2003. Student Resource Center - Bronze. Gale. Web. 16 Sept. 2008  . Foster‚ Thomas C. How to Read Literature Like a Professor. New York: Quill‚ 2003. Print. Grant‚ Michael. "Oedipus." Discovering Authors. Online ed. Detroit: Gale‚ 2003. Student Resource Center - Bronze. Gale. Web. 16 Sept. 2008  . Knox‚ Bernard M. W. “The Last Scene.” Twentieth Century Interpretations of Oedipus Rex: A Collection

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    Art 101 Final Essay

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    demand. Chow Chow‚ 1915 by Franz Ziegler Franz F. Zeigler was born in Germany in 1869 and came to America in 1892. In the 1900’s he become contracted through Gorham Company as an artist. He produced many pieces of art work in silver designs and bronze sculptures. In this particular sculpture the Chow Chow dog was a very popular dog in the 1900’s. In the sculpture by Franz Zeigler of the Chow Chow dog he shows much detail of the dog such as the thick coat and the lion like head. This sculpture is

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    During the Late Bronze Age of the Near East‚ major civilizations like Egypt‚ Hatti‚ and Assyria engaged with each other politically and economically. These interactions have been captured through a group of correspondence called the Amarna Letters. Found in the ancient city Akhetaten‚ the Amarna Letters feature direct contact between Pharaoh Akhenaten and other leaders. According to archeologists‚ Alashiya‚ a copper rich civilization found in the letters‚ likely refers to an elite urban center

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