chromium processing: References & Edit History

Additional Reading

Comprehensive and up-to-date information on many aspects of metallurgy, individual metals, and alloys can be found in convenient reference-form arrangement in Metals Handbook, 9th ed., 17 vol. (1978–89), a massive and detailed source prepared under the direction of the American Society for Metals, with a 10th edition that began publication in 1990.

Articles on the extractive metallurgy and commercial applications of chromium and manganese are found in Herman F. Mark et al. (eds.), Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology, 3rd ed., 31 vol. (1978–84), formerly known as Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology, with a 4th edition begun in 1991; and its European counterpart, the first English-language edition of a monumental German work, Ullmann’s Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry, 5th, completely rev. ed., edited by Wolfgang Gerhartz et al. (1985– ). See also F.P. Edneral, Electrometallurgy of Steel and Ferro-Alloys, 2 vol. (1979; originally published in Russian, 1955); A.G. Robiette, Electric Smelting Processes (1973); and A.H. Sully and E.A. Brandes, Chromium, 2nd ed. (1967).

Article Contributors

Primary Contributors

  • Frederick E. Bacon
    Former Metallurgical Engineer, Metals Division, Union Carbide Corporation, Niagara Falls, New York.
  • James H. Downing
    Metallurgical consultant. Senior Fellow, Elkem Metals, Niagara Falls, New York, 1986–91.
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Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Text added noting top-producing countries of chromium. Aug 23, 2013
Media added. Nov 06, 2008
Article added to new online database. Oct 30, 1998
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