These steels then normally consist of y-iron, modified by the large amount of nickel or manganese with which it is alloyed.
The learned hold the doctrine of Confucius, and Buddhism, alloyed with much popular superstition, has some influence.
A sheet iron case is then placed within the furnace, and the space between it and the walls rammed with limed charcoal; the interior is filled with fragments of the iron or copper to be alloyed, mixed with alumina and coarse charcoal, broken pieces of carbon being placed in position to connect the electrodes.
This is so when gold and silver are alloyed with each other, and is true in the case of alloys of copper.
Alloyed with copper, it is used for the envelopes of bullets.
