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Bower-Barff Metallurgy.|ˈbaʊə bɑːf|
[The names of G. and A. S. Bower and F. S. Barff, 19th-cent. American engineers.]
Bower-Barff process: a development of the Barff process (see quots. and Barff). Hence Bower-Barffed ppl. a., treated by this process; Bower-Barffing vbl. n., treatment by this process. (Also with lower-case initials.)
1884G. Bower in Trans. Soc. Engin. 1883 59 The coating consists of a film of magnetic oxide, and is produced directly by the Barff process, and indirectly by the joint process of the author and his son. So long as these were worked independently, the one was called the Barff, the other the Bower process; but now that the various English patents are in the hands of one company, they are worked together and the process is called the Bower-Barff process. 1940Chambers's Techn. Dict. 106/2 Bower-Barffing, an anti⁓corrosion process applied to sanitary ironwork. 1944Jrnl. Iron & Steel Inst. CL. 83 The Bower-Barff process in which the steel is heated to about 800° C. for 20 min. first in air, then in superheated steam and finally in a producer-gas atmosphere. 1952Archit. Rev. CXI. 138/2 A pan of twenty gallons working capacity in bower-barffed cast-iron. |