Electrometallurgy
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Electrometallurgy is the field concerned with the processes of metal electrodeposition
. There are five categories of these processes:
Electrodeposition
Electrodeposition may refer to:*Electroplating*Electrophoretic deposition*Underpotential deposition...
. There are five categories of these processes:
- electrowinningElectrowinningElectrowinning, also called electroextraction, is the electrodeposition of metals from their ores that have been put in solution or liquefied. Electrorefining uses a similar process to remove impurities from a metal. Both processes use electroplating on a large scale and are important techniques...
, the extraction of metal from ores - electrorefining, the purification of metals
- electroplatingElectroplatingElectroplating is a plating process in which metal ions in a solution are moved by an electric field to coat an electrode. The process uses electrical current to reduce cations of a desired material from a solution and coat a conductive object with a thin layer of the material, such as a metal...
, the deposition of a layer of one metal on another - electroformingElectroformingElectroforming is a metal forming process that forms thin parts through the electroplating process. The part is produced by plating a metal skin onto a base form, known as a mandrel, which is removed after plating...
, the manufacture of, usually thin, metal parts through electroplating - Powder production
Reference
- Konstantin Ivanovich Popov, Stojan S. Djokić, Branimir N. Grgur, Fundamental Aspects of Electrometallurgy, p. 1, Springer, 2002 ISBN 0306472694.