NON-CORROSIVE STEEL
SUCCESSFUL METHOD FOUND.
A successful method of coating
steel with aluminium was discovered by Professor Colin G. Fink, electrochemist of Columbia University. The importance of the process, Professor Fink told the Associated Press, lies in being able to combine the non-corrosive properties of aluminium with the tensile strength of steel. It will be particularly adaptable for building construction, planes and automobiles, rail equipment and industrial machinery.
“Buidings of glass and metal will some day be cheaper than any other type,” he asserted, and the market for steel and for aluminium will be greatly expanded by the new process. Dr. Fink accomplished the hitherto impossible task of coating steel with aluminium by the comparatively simple procedure of saturating the steel surface with hot hydrogen gas before dipping into a molten aluminium bath. t
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXX, Issue 4812, 22 February 1936, Page 6
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134NON-CORROSIVE STEEL King Country Chronicle, Volume XXX, Issue 4812, 22 February 1936, Page 6
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