Recycling metal is essential because it reduces the amount of scrap bound for landfills and reduces the need to mine ores, but it’s not necessarily the reason scrap processors started their businesses ...

In this study, several types of metals were tested for identification based on their spectral lines. Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) is a type of atomic emission spectroscopy which ...

Mark Valentine, Chief Operating Officer at Tribogenics, speaks to AZoM about how Watson can be used for the rapid and portable identification of aluminium grades in the scrap metal industry. Could you ...

Almost anyone can learn the craft of welding, Andrew Pearce argues in his straightforward and handy guide to do-it-yourself metal work, Farm and Workshop Welding (Fox Chapel Publishing, 2012). In this ...

This month we will decode the Carter AFB carburetor’s triangular metal identification tag, review the identifying suffix codes, and carburetor identification numbers. We will also discuss the ...