Meanings
- datedThe treatment of metal with chlorine salts.
The heat of chloruration of the white cast iron was thus found to be greater than that of the grey cast iron.
1878, Julien Deby, Report on the Progress of the Iron and Steel Industries in Foreign Countries, page 1851 more example
The quantity of salt which will give the highest chloruration having been determined, it is wasteful to add more, as it has been shown by experiments made the Ontario Mill that 3 per cent. of undecomposed salt is contained in the roasted ore, more being present in the smaples from the shaft than from the flue.
1887, Thomas Egleston, The Metallurgy of Silver, Gold, and Mercury in the United States, page 253
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