Standard Practice for Sampling Wrought Nonferrous Metals and Alloys for Determination of Chemical Composition

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ASTM	09/01/2017	3

Category: ASTM

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ASTM E55 – Standard Practice for Sampling Wrought Nonferrous Metals and Alloys for Determination of Chemical Composition

1.1 This practice covers the sampling, for the determination of chemical composition (Note 1), of nonferrous metals and alloys that have been reduced to their final form by mechanical working; that is, by such means as rolling, drawing, and extruding.

1.1.1 Refer to Practice E255 for copper and copper alloys.

Note 1: The selection of correct portions of material and the preparation of a representative sample from such portions are necessary prerequisites to every analysis, the analysis being of no value unless the sample actually represents the average composition of the material from which it was selected.