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Descriptor English: Metallurgy
Descriptor Spanish: Metalurgia
Descriptor metalurgia
Entry term(s) industrias pesadas
Scope note: Ciencia, arte o tecnología que trata de los procesos relacionados con la separación de metales de sus minerales (menas), la técnica de realizar o combinar las aleaciones, las técnicas de trabajo de los metales o su tratamiento térmico y la minería de metales. Este término incluye la metalurgia industrial así como las técnicas metalúrgicas empleadas para la preparación y trabajado de metales utilizados en odontología, con especial referencia a los dispositivos de ortodoncia y prostodoncia. (Traducción libre del original: Jablonski, Dictionary of Dentistry, 1992, p494)
Descriptor Portuguese: Metalurgia
Descriptor French: Métallurgie
Entry term(s): Heavy Industries
Heavy Industry
Industries, Heavy
Industry, Heavy
Tree number(s): J01.576.655.875.400
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D008669
Scope note: The science, art, or technology dealing with processes involved in the separation of metals from their ores, the technique of making or compounding the alloys, the techniques of working or heat-treating metals, and the mining of metals. It includes industrial metallurgy as well as metallurgical techniques employed in the preparation and working of metals used in dentistry, with special reference to orthodontic and prosthodontic appliances. (From Jablonski, Dictionary of Dentistry, 1992, p494)
Annotation: note entry term HEAVY INDUSTRIES for iron, steel, etc., industries; in dental literature, the working & manipulation of metals for orthodontic or prosthodontic appliances is probably DENTAL SOLDERING but if not soldering, coordinate specific appliance with METALLURGY (NIM)
Allowable Qualifiers: CL classification
EC economics
ED education
ES ethics
HI history
IS instrumentation
LJ legislation & jurisprudence
MT methods
OG organization & administration
SN statistics & numerical data
ST standards
TD trends
DeCS ID: 8845
Unique ID: D008669
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Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 1997/06/20
Metallurgy - Preferred
Concept UI M0013513
Scope note The science, art, or technology dealing with processes involved in the separation of metals from their ores, the technique of making or compounding the alloys, the techniques of working or heat-treating metals, and the mining of metals. It includes industrial metallurgy as well as metallurgical techniques employed in the preparation and working of metals used in dentistry, with special reference to orthodontic and prosthodontic appliances. (From Jablonski, Dictionary of Dentistry, 1992, p494)
Preferred term Metallurgy
Industries, Heavy - Narrower
Concept UI M0013514
Preferred term Industries, Heavy
Entry term(s) Heavy Industries
Heavy Industry
Industry, Heavy



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