Puddling Definition

Puddling Sentence Examples

• They are almost entirely confined to puddling furnaces.

• About 1740 Benjamin Huntsman introduced the " crucible process " of melting steel in small crucibles, and thus freeing it from the slag, or rich iron silicate, with which it, like wrought iron, was mechanically mixed, whether it was made in the old forge or in the puddling furnace.

• The ultimate source of the oxygen may be the air, as in the Bessemer process, or rich iron oxide as in the puddling process, or both as in the open-hearth process; but in any case iron oxide is the chief immediate source, as is to be expected, because the oxygen of the air would naturally unite in much greater proportion with some of the great quantity of iron offered to it than with the small quantity of these impurities.

• In the puddling process molten cast iron is converted into wrought iron, i.e.

• Second, in puddling iron which is to be used as a raw material for making very fine steel by the crucible process, quality is the thing of first importance.