What is the role of graphite in liquid metal bath formation?

[wuliwong]

Hi guys, I'm a physicist and would appreciate some direction in helping me understand the dynamics (or chemistry) of graphite in a bath of liquid metal. Eventually the bath is cooled into a solid ingot. There are several different metals which are used (Cu, Fe, Al as well as many alloys). Any help would be greatly appreciated. I could use links to papers, textbooks, research groups, etc. Or if you really feel like getting into it, please have a discussion right here!

Thanks in advance.

 

[Matcon]

I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "dynamics of graphite in a liquid metal bath". If you are asking whether graphite dissolves in liquid metal, a good guide to this is whether the metal readily forms a stable carbide or, if an alloy, one of the constituents does. Copper does not. Most, if not all, transition metals do. Smithells "Metals Reference Book" has a table of thermochemical data of carbides that serves as a guide

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