Jennifer Bourn. This post is part of the Color Meaning Blog Series, detailing the meanings associated with colors such as red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, grey, black, white, brown, pink, turquoise, gold, silver, and beige.
The effect of replacing argon by nitrogen was investigated for the purÂ­pose of reducing welding costs. The study reveals that nitrogen can very well be used to replace argon for purging in pipe welding without any adverse effects on the properties of the unstabilized austenitic stainless steels.
Gas metal arc welding (GMAW), commonly called MIG (for metal/inert-gas), is a semi-automatic or automatic welding process with a continuously fed consumable wire acting as both electrode and filler metal, along with an inert or semi-inert shielding gas flowed around the wire to protect the weld site from contamination.