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What material is used to hold molten iron in a furnace?

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Is it possible to build a perfectly spherical Prince Rupert's drop?

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Why do we even use engineering stress?

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How can the alloying materials of recycled steels be separated?

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Silicon and silicones

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Why use a 'dogbone' shape for tensile testing specimens?

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What metal material to use for stove exhaust pipe?

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Steel vs Bamboo strength types/ weight and in various directions & orientations? Specific, Tensile, Compressive, Shear, Lateral etc?

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Why does the stress-strain curve decrease?

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Does the ultimate tensile strength of a material have a physical meaning?

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How to stop water flow in a siphon?

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How can I finish a round hole so it has 90 degree corners (flat bottom)?

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Bulk Volume vs. Solid Volume

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Schaeffler, De Long, and WRC welding diagrams - which steels can be used?

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Material Properties: Does bending reduce iron rebar's strength?

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What is the opposite of flaring a tube (pinching?) and is there a tool to do this with aluminum?

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Determining the microstructure of steel after welding in modern computer software

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What makes something like water so hard to change its density?

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Why are vacancies in solids called as equilibrium defects?

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Nylon brittleness as function of moisture content

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What material is used to make gas pipes?

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Theoretical strength of pure and perfect crystals are way higher than the strength of crystals with dislocation?

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Does unloading beyond yield point also affect tensile strength?

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Help with hydraulic design

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Units for plasma etching of circuits: A (with degree symbol)/min

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Why is strain also normalized to the parameters of engineering strain?

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Alloys with same density as gold

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Orthographic (engineering) drawing with same top and front view?

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Densities of different phases of steel (austenite, bainite)

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What kind of material is "hot-cure resin"?