C22B 9/106
The refining being obtained by intimately mixing the molten metal with a
Official title: {the refining being obtained by intimately mixing the molten metal with a molten salt or slag}
C22B9/106 (The refining being obtained by intimately mixing the molten metal with a) appears on 61 US grants and 33 published applications in this corpus.
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Method for fluxing molten metal111US 5,616,167 A1997
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