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- Red Brass (Low Lead) Castings / Copper-Tin-Zinc Alloy Castings SDS (SC018R14)
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- Six Families of Cast Iron
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- Stainless Steels
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- Steel Castings Handbook, 6th Edition
- Technology for Magnesium Castings: Design, Products & Applications
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- Tensile Strength for Chemically Bonded Sand
- The 3D Printed Precision Sand Casting Process
- The Fragility of China: Breaking points of an Invincible Regime
- The History of Metals in America
- Treatment of Liquid Aluminum-Silicon Alloys
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- Wet Tensile Strength for Green Sand
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- Yellow Brass Castings/Leaded Yellow Brass Castings SDS (SC021R13)
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