Carbon Dioxide Process for Mould Hardening | Casting | Metallurgy
Formerly this process was widely used in Europe for hardening of moulds and cores made of green sand, but now- a-days, it has been adopted in several countries because of rapid hardening of sand. It consists of thorough mixing of silica sand (clean, dry and free from clay) with 3.5 to 5% by weight of sodium silicate liquid base binder [...]