- Industry: Mining
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The U.S. Bureau of Mines (USBM) was the primary United States Government agency conducting scientific research and disseminating information on the extraction, processing, use, and conservation of mineral resources.
Founded on May 16, 1910, through the Organic Act (Public Law 179), USBM's missions ...
A substance that can be added to molten metal to remove soluble gases that might otherwise be occluded or entrapped in the metal during solidification.
Industry:Mining
A substance that can be economically burned to produce heat energy for domestic or industrial purposes. Fuels include compounds of carbon and hydrogen and exclude other 1296 substances that can be burned. Fuels can be subdivided into recent plant fuels, fossil fuels, such as peat and coal, and products of distillation of plant or fossil fuels. According to their state of aggregation, fuels can be subdivided into solid, liquid, and gaseous fuels.
Industry:Mining
A substance that contains two or more electron donor groups and will combine with a metal ion so that one or more rings are formed.
Industry:Mining
A substance that is a homogeneous mixture and has a continuous variation of composition up to a solubility limit.
Industry:Mining
A substance that promotes phosphorescence in a mineral or other compound.
Industry:Mining
A substance that was present in a magma but was lost during crystallization, so that it does not commonly appear as a rock constituent.
Industry:Mining
A substance that will absorb heat while vaporizing and whose boiling point and other properties make it useful as a medium for refrigeration.
Industry:Mining
A substance used in a flotation process to make air bubbles sufficiently permanent, principally by reducing surface tension.
Industry:Mining
A substance used in dyeing to fix the coloring matter, as a metallic compound that combines with a organic dye to form an insoluble colored compound, or lake, in the fiber of a fabric.
Industry:Mining
A substance with a distinctive, disagreeable odor put in the air current to warn underground workers of fire or other emergency; ethyl mercaptan is commonly used.
Industry:Mining
