What's the difference between blowtube and metallurgy?

Blowtube


Definition:

  • (n.) A blowgun.
  • (n.) A similar instrument, commonly of tin, used by boys for discharging paper wads and other light missiles.
  • (n.) A long wrought iron tube, on the end of which the workman gathers a quantity of "metal" (melted glass), and through which he blows to expand or shape it; -- called also blowing tube, and blowpipe.

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Metallurgy


Definition:

  • (n.) The art of working metals, comprehending the whole process of separating them from other matters in the ore, smelting, refining, and parting them; sometimes, in a narrower sense, only the process of extracting metals from their ores.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In 1984 the press-fit condylar knee was first introduced and was intended to provide a condylar knee system primarily for posterior cruciate retention that addressed refinements in metallurgy, prosthetic geometry and sizing, cementless fixation, inventory management, and instrumentation.
  • (2) Thirteen of the 25 revisions required in the early series were due to stem fracture, a complication rarely seen now with improved stem design and superalloy metallurgy.
  • (3) The authors examined a group of pregnant women employed in metallurgy and in a control group.
  • (4) The physical and mechanical properties of samples of a nickel-base alloy fabricated by powder metallurgy were determined.
  • (5) It can also be used for many other applications, for example, in metallurgy, petrography and geostrategy.
  • (6) in length), having either conventional smooth surfaces (control) or porous surfaces (20 to 50 micron particle size) produced by powder metallurgy techniques, were positioned in the right atrial a-pendage.
  • (7) An economic evaluation is made on temporary disability because of disease of trauma, for a three-year period in one shop of technological plant for nonferrous metallurgy.
  • (8) Archaeological and anthropological studies of early developments in writing, music and metallurgy by ancient Peruvians and Persian peoples should be combined with PET-scan studies of their descendants to discover if, as preliminary archaeological data suggest, the two ancient populations differed on a genetic basis in higher brain functions, yet are indistinguishable as metallurgical engineers.
  • (9) Subjects rangedĀ from maths to metallurgy and modern languages.
  • (10) Metallurgical occupational hazards harm the health status in workers engaged into heat-treating metallurgy, induce the gastrointestinal disorders, which are demonstrated by the elevated transitory disablement.
  • (11) Basing on complex physiological and hygienic studies, the contributors propose an assessment of the work load of those engaged in the major professions in copper and nickel metallurgy.
  • (12) She grew up in Norilsk, a Siberian mining and metallurgy city that was once the centre of the Norillag gulag and one of the 10 most polluted places on earth.
  • (13) Transitory disablement in 5886 workers engaged for the whole year into heat treating metallurgy was compared during 5 years (1981-1985) with that in 291 workers engaged into repairing mechanical occupations so as to reveal metallurgical occupational factors influencing on gastrointestinal morbidity.
  • (14) Aluminium metal high-disperse dust presents a major health-affecting factor in aluminium powder metallurgy.
  • (15) In order to accurately evaluate copper exposure at working places where copper fume may arise (Metallurgy Department) it is necessary to determine Cu concentrations in respirable dust.
  • (16) These are as follows: ferrous metallurgy (5.21), metals producing industry (4.88), textile industry (4.83), chemical industry (4.63) and rubber processing industry (4.73).
  • (17) The origins of metallurgy stretch back nearly 4,000 years in South America.
  • (18) Working environment has been evaluated in two copper metallurgy plants by analysis of Cu and other metals (Pb, Cd, Zn) concentrations.
  • (19) Incidence of multiple myeloma was significantly increased for a number of occupational groups such as farmers, smelter and metallurgy workers, and miners-quarrymen-rock blasters.
  • (20) The attention is directed to regions with national industrial branches, most intensively polluting the atmospheric air (metallurgy, chemistry, petroleum-chemistry, cellulose-paper industry) and such, where the air pollution is related first of all to transport across the border-line.

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