| Brite | (english) 1) Regular galvanize coating (not minimized spangle or JP). 2) Rolls that have no grit; smooth finish on surface of steel. |
| Brittle Inter-metallic Layer | (english) An iron-zinc alloy layer formed between the steel substrate and the free zinc of galvanized coatings. |
| Bronze 2 | (english) Primarily an alloy of copper and tin, but additionally, the name is used when referring to other alloys not containing tin, for example, aluminum bronze, manganese bronze, and beryllium bronze. |
| Brown Sharp Gages | (english) A standard series of sizes refered to by numbers, in which the diameter of wire or thickness of sheet metal is generally produced and which is used in the manufacture of brass, bronze, copper, copper-base alloys and aluminum. These gage numbers have a definite relationship to each other. In this system, the decimal thickness is reduced by 50% every six gage numbers- while temper is expressed by the number of B&S gage numbers as cold reduced in thickness from previous annealing. For each B&S gage number in thickness reduction, where is assigned a hardness value of 1/4 hard. |
| Bust Coil | (english) Coils removed from the off-gauge reel. The BUST (build up side trimmer) coil contains defects (gauge variation and quality defects) and off-spec widths. |
| Butt Welding | (english) Joining two edges or ends by placing one against the other and welding them. |
| Potential Energy: | (english) The energy stored in a raised object (e.g. the weights in a grandfather clock). Potential energy equals mgh, where m is mass, g is the acceleration of gravity, and h is the vertical distance from a reference location. It is called potential energy because the energy can be regained when the object is lowered. This type of potential energy is sometimes called gravitational potential energy in order to distinguish it from elastic potential energy: see elastic energy. |
| Transmissibility: | (english) The principle stating that a force has the same external effect on an object regardless of where it acts along its line of action. |
| Aerobes | (Environmental Engineering) Organisms which require molecular oxygen as an electron acceptor for energy production. See anaerobes. |
| Alcohol | (Environmental Engineering) An organic compound with one or more hydroxyl "-OH" groups. |