What Is the Hardness of Tungsten Carbide?

Hardness
Tungsten carbide measures a nine on Moh's hardness scale, meaning it is about as hard as corundum, but not as hard as diamond. In order to polish or finish an item made of tungsten carbide, a diamond must be used because any other metal or mineral would crack and break. Only a diamond is hard enough to be able to scratch tungsten carbide. Its density also surpasses the density of titanium.
 
Composition and Properties
Tungsten carbide is created when tungsten and carbon are combined in equal amounts. In order to create tungsten carbide, the process has to be carried out at temperatures between 1,400 and 2,000 degrees centigrade. The resulting product, tungsten carbide, has an extremely high melting point of about 5,200 degrees Fahrenheit and a low electrical resistance, meaning it readily conducts electricity.
 
 
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WC Powder Production

There are several ways of producing tungsten carbide, tungsten carbide producers expand the traditional method is to use a solid carbon tungsten carbide powder in the system, this method can produce powder particle size of 1 ~ 30μm tungsten carbide powder. Sumitomo Electric and Tokyo, Japan, the company successfully developed tungsten tungsten trioxide directly with the production of ultra-fine tungsten carbide powder. Currently, this method has been successfully used for industrial scale Qi production of high quality composite ultrafine tungsten carbide and carbide powder. In addition, the world carbide research, production unit also developed a spray pyrolysis conversion Huan, co-precipitation method, gas carburizing, high-energy ball milling, mechanical alloying, plasma Act and other methods.

Solid Carbon Carbonization

Tungsten carbide powder with the carbon-containing process gas phase reaction is carried out. Hydrogen-carbonization, the hydrogen and the material in the first carbon react to form hydrocarbons when the temperature is low, the main component is methane (CH4), methane is unstable at high temperatures, 1400 ℃ in full cleavage of carbon and hydrogen .

Direct Carbonization Tungsten Trioxide

Japan Tokyo Tungsten Corporation and Sumitomo Electric Industries Research and Development of tungsten trioxide prepared directly for foot-quality ultrafine tungsten carbide powder, produced by the process of the necessary equipment mixer, granulators, dryers, and two rotary furnaces components.

Nanocrystalline WC-Co Composite Powder Preparation Method

Carbide is the key to preparing nano Nano WC powder, tungsten carbide and traditional manufacturing methods can not meet this requirement. U.S. ZGBan et al mechanically activated - reduction / carbonization prepared nanocrystalline WC-Co composite powders were studied. Mechanical alloying (Mechanical Alloying) method is the use of high energy ball milling, crushing, cold welding and mechanical force action under the low temperature solid phase reaction, the chemical synthesis of nanometer WC powder. Plasma chemical vapor deposition method to prepare nano WC is a widely used method, the principle is the use of plasma generator (100kW) produces heat, methane (CH4) or acetylene (C2H2) as the carbon source, W, or WO3 as a raw material in temperature 2700-3500K under chemical vapor-phase synthesis.

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Immediate Ring Removal

1
Seek medical attention in the event of an emergency. If the tungsten ring is cutting off circulation or causing pain, go to a hospital.
 
2
Prepare to remove the ring yourself. If medical assistance is not available, a tungsten ring can be shattered and removed from the finger with a pair of vice grip pliers.
 
3
Place the vice grip pliers around the ring. If the ring is bent into an oval shape, place the pliers on the long sides of the oval.
 
4
Apply a quick squeeze of pressure to the ring. Tungsten will fracture into pieces and fall away from the finger.
 
5
Look for cuts or wounds on the finger. Clean the wound with water. Apply an antibiotic ointment and bandage the wound. Seek medical attention as soon as possible if stitches are needed or if the blood is not clotting at the wound site.
 
 
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History of Tungsten Carbide

Tungsten is a resilient steel-gray metal, located in many different ores. While the metal was actually discovered by Carl Wilhelm Scheele in 1781, its many uses weren't discovered until the early decades of the twentieth century. Tungsten carbide has been used in mining and mechanical applications--everything from light-bulb filaments and x-ray tubes to drill bits.

 

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Tight Tungsten Rings

1
Place the ring finger under a stream of cool water. The cool temperature to reduce swelling of the finger.
 
2
Apply liquid soap to the ring finger. Rub the soap around the ring and finger to lubricate the ring. Gently twist the ring from side to side to lubricate the underside with soap. Liquid soap will not damage tungsten.
 
3
Gently pull the ring toward the knuckle. Work the ring down the shaft of the finger until it slides off.
 
 
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