{"id":2114,"date":"2024-03-05T09:20:12","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T09:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cake.appscodestudio.com\/?p=2114"},"modified":"2024-03-05T09:20:13","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T09:20:13","slug":"tungsten-carbide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cake.appscodestudio.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/05\/tungsten-carbide\/","title":{"rendered":"tungsten carbide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Tungsten carbide<\/strong>, an important member of the class of inorganic\u00a0compounds\u00a0of\u00a0carbon, used alone or with 6 to 20 percent of other metals to impart\u00a0hardness\u00a0to\u00a0cast iron, cutting edges of saws and drills, and penetrating cores of armour-piercing projectiles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tungsten\u00a0carbide\u00a0is a dense, metallike substance, light gray with a bluish tinge, that decomposes, rather than melts, at 2,600\u00b0 C (4,700\u00b0 F). It is prepared by heating powdered\u00a0tungsten\u00a0with\u00a0carbon black\u00a0in the presence of hydrogen at 1,400\u00b0\u20131,600\u00b0 C (2,550\u00b0\u20132,900\u00b0 F). For fabrication, a process developed in the 1920s is employed: the powdered tungsten carbide is mixed with another powdered metal, usually\u00a0cobalt, and pressed into the desired shape, then heated to temperatures of 1,400\u00b0\u20131,600\u00b0 C; the other metal, which melts, wets and partially\u00a0dissolves\u00a0the grains of tungsten carbide, thus acting as a binder or cement. The cemented composites of tungsten carbide\u2013cobalt are known by many trade names, including Widia and Carboloy.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/technology\/machine-tool\/Tool-materials#ref424288\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tungsten carbide, an important member of the class of inorganic\u00a0compounds\u00a0of\u00a0carbon, used alone or with 6 to 20 percent of other metals to impart\u00a0hardness\u00a0to\u00a0cast iron, cutting edges of saws and drills, and penetrating cores of armour-piercing projectiles. Tungsten\u00a0carbide\u00a0is a dense, metallike substance, light gray with a bluish tinge, that decomposes, rather than melts, at 2,600\u00b0 C [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inorganic-compounds"],"Cooking_time":"","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cake.appscodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cake.appscodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cake.appscodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cake.appscodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cake.appscodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cake.appscodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2115,"href":"https:\/\/cake.appscodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114\/revisions\/2115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cake.appscodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cake.appscodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cake.appscodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}