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DEAR SCIENTIST:
HOW MANY HOURS STEEL SHOULD BE IN A BATH OF MOLTEN ZINC IN HOT DIP GALVANIZING METHOD?
Farshid Momenimechanical engineer - Tehran, Iran
2004
Galvanizing would not be profitable when we have to talk about hours. In fact the time in the molten zinc is the time to heat-up the material to be galvanized to the temperature of the molten zinc (in average 450 °C), including dipping into the zinc and taking out, it takes 10-15 minutes.

Dolf van den Berg
- Leusden, The Netherlands
2004
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