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Heat Treatment for Silver-Copper Alloy
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Heat Treatment for Silver-Copper Alloy

Heat Treatment for Silver-Copper Alloy

(OP)
Hello!

My materials and heat treatment knowledge is amazingly rusty! smile

I have a 85% Silver, 15% Copper strip that is formed a particular way in a fixture, and then "baked" (still in the fixture) in an oven that has been purged with 96% Nitrogen, 4% Hydrogen for 2-3 hours.

What sort of differences would I expect, if any, if I were to use 95% Nitrogen, 5% Hydrogen?

Thanks!
A Klemet

RE: Heat Treatment for Silver-Copper Alloy

No real change based on what you have provided, and a quick review of literature I have available.

RE: Heat Treatment for Silver-Copper Alloy

You are using the H to reduce oxidation, if the purge was very good and the N was very dry then you might get away with 2%. A little variation each way won't matter. What matters is that the oxygen and dew point are very low.

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P.E. Metallurgy, Plymouth Tube

RE: Heat Treatment for Silver-Copper Alloy

4% hydrogen is considered safe. 5% hydrogen is considered a safety hazard due to explosion potential.

RE: Heat Treatment for Silver-Copper Alloy

(OP)
Thanks for the help!

A Klemet

RE: Heat Treatment for Silver-Copper Alloy

Though in reality you have to get to 7 or 8% before you can get flame or explosion risk.

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P.E. Metallurgy, Plymouth Tube

RE: Heat Treatment for Silver-Copper Alloy

And that's in air not nitrogen. Explosion risk doesn't occur unless the gas leaks out and with 5% H2 in the gas you are never going to get 5% in a gas/air mix.

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