METALLURGY

S A A V E D R A G A R C A J O S E LY N

WHAT IS THE METALLURGY?

Metallurgy is "the science and study of the behaviors and
properties of metals and their extraction from their ores.

METALS
Metals are opaque, lustrous elements that are good conductors
of heat and electricity. Most metals are malleable and ductile
and are, in general, denser than the other elemental
substances.
Metals are used in:
Transportation
Aerospace
Computers and other electronic devices that require conductors
Communications
Food processing and preservation
Construction
Biomedical applications
Electrical power production and distribution

IMPORTANCE: ALLOYS
An alloy is a substance made by melting two or more elements together, at
least one of them a metal

ALLOYS

SOLVENT
The component of a solution that is
present in the greatest amount. It is
the substance in which the solute is
dissolved.
solute
A substance dissolved in another
substance, usually the
component of a solution present
in the lesser amount.

TYPES OF ALLOYS

The structures of alloys are more

complicated than
those of pure metals because they
are built from atoms of two or more elements
with d
ifferent atomic radio

Interstitial alloys
Substitutional alloys

CRYSTAL LATTICE

INTERSTITIAL ALLOYS
Alloys can also form if
the alloying agent or
agents have atoms
that are very much
smaller than those of
the main metal. In
that case, the agent
atoms slip in between
the main metal
atoms (in the gaps or
"interstices"), giving

SUBSTITUTIONAL ALLOYS
An alloy like this will form only if the
atoms of the base metal and those
of the alloying agent are of roughly
similar size. In most substitution
alloys, the constituent elements are
quite near one another in the
periodic table. Brass, for example, is
a substitution alloy based on copper
in which atoms of zinc replace 10
35 percent of the atoms that would
normally be in copper. Brass works
as an alloy because copper and zinc
are close to one another in the

STUDY OF ALLOYS
Phase diagram is a graphical representation of the physical states of a
substance under different conditions of temperature and composition