Nonferrous Metallurgy

Abstract

ECAUSE the analytical chemists serving nonferrous B metallurgy use many, if not most, of the analytical procedures and techniques covered in the general and specific literature of analysis, detailed descriptions of techniques and procedures are avoided in this review. The scope of use of techniques and procedures and their application to the analysis of nonferrous metals are stressed.Fundamentally, the most important analytical procedures in the nonferrous field are gravimetric and volumetric in nature. This is well illustrated by the fact that, for the most part, methods for the analysis of nonferrous metals presented by the American Society for Testing hIaterials (9) are almost wholly gravimetric or volumetric in nature. This fact should not be construed as minimizing the importance of other procedural methods, but rather as indicative of the fact that from the standpoint of demonstrable accuracy, gravimetric and volumetric methods have advantages not attainable by methods which, while not necessarily so accurate, exhibit the advantages of speed and adequate precision.