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[641] Colored Karat Golds for Investment Casting
In modern melting and casting technology, the need for products able to front competition in the field of quality and price encourages the development of new alloys that can guarantee better performance. Most significant innovations have taken place in alloys for investment casting, to improve the quality of castings. Additions of many elements to gold alloys have been experimented, but only a few of them appear to be sufficiently effective and easy to use. In this paper, we describe work carried out to examine technical and practical performances of some yellow 18 carat gold with additions aiming chiefly at improving alloy castability. Alloys of different composition have been tested and the effects of the different alloying additions have been compared, in order to find the addition elements that show better performance and able to give a true improvement of the quality level of the castings.... (2001)
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