NEW STEEL
SAID TO DEFY HEAT. DANISH PRODUCT UNINJURED IN TEMPERATURE OF 950 DEG. Announcement of some successful experiments made with a new steel that, it is asserted, will withstand extreme heat and the reaction of acids and gases injurious to the metal, is made by a Copenhagen newspaper. As yet the product is without a name. Ten tons of it have been produced at the Varde Works for comprehensive testing purposes. The metal has been exposed to high temperatures in Copenhagen furnaces which heat to a temperature of 950 degrees, in which the metal has been allowed to remain for five or six periods of ten hours each, without showing any injurious effects. It is said that a piece of the best steel previously produced was completely destroyed in the first heating, at a temperature that had no effect on the new metal. In the tests at tlie Varde Gas Works pieces of ordinary steel and, of the new, ot the same size, were left in a “recarburetor” for six weeks at a -temperature of from 1000 to 1100 degrees. At the end of the experiment, the ordinary steel had practically disappeared, while the new alloy showed no signs of having been affected by the heat. Considerable interest has been roused by the results obtained.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 28 September 1927, Page 5
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