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title: Metallurgical processes -- basics (In preparation)
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This chapter is in preparation. You are welcome to contribute!
If you are interested to contribute, please get in contact with Thomas Rose, the editor of this interactive textbook, by [mail](mailto:thomas.rose@bergbaumuseum.de?subject=LIA%20textbook) or on [GitHub](https://github.com/archmetalDBM/GlobaLID-Edu).
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## Learning objective
In this unit you will gain general understanding of the metallurgical process.
## Prior knowledge
... building upon what you already know ...
* general understanding of ore structure
## Material
... by doing these things:
Video: off-voice over sequential sketches or similar
“cheat sheet” with visualisation of basic concepts and glossary
## Learning content
* General process
* General basic concepts (e.g. density segregation, slagging, fluxing, furnace atmosphere)
## Self check
Now you can provide answers to the following questions:
* ...
## Further reading
To delve deeper into this topic, we recommend the following resources...
* Tylecote, R. F., 1987, The Early History of Metallurgy in Europe, Longman London and New York.
* Allibert, M., Gaye, H., Geiseler, J., Janke, D., Keene, B. J., Kirner, D., Kowalski, M., Lehmann, J., Mills, K. C., Neuschütz, D., Parra, R., Saint-Jours, C., Spencer, P. J., Susa, M., Tmar, M., and Woermann, E., 1995, Slag Atlas, Verlag Stahleisen GmbH, Düsseldorf.
* Bachmann, H. G., 1982, The identification of slags from archaeological sites, Institute of Archaeology Occasional Publication, 6.
* Piatak, N. M., Parsons, M. B., and Seal, R. R., 2015, Characteristics and environmental aspects of slag: A review, Applied Geochemistry, 57, 236–66.
* Rosenqvist, T., 2004, Principles of extractive metallurgy 2nd ed.
* Goldenberg, G., 1996, Archäometallurgische Untersuchungen zur Entwicklung des Metallhüttenwesens im Schwarzwald. Blei-, Silber- und Kupfergewinnung von der Frühgeschichte bis zum 19. Jahrhundert, In Archäometallurgische Untersuchungen zum Metallhüttenwesen im Schwarzwald (eds. G. Goldenberg, J. Otto, and H. Steuer), 9–274, Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Sigmaringen.
* Vignes, A., 2013, Extractive metallurgy 1: Basic thermodynamics and kinetics, John Wiley & Sons.
* Vignes, A., 2013, Extractive metallurgy 2: metallurgical reaction processes, John Wiley & Sons.
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