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The use of oxygen in steelmaking, now well established, points toward similar advances in copper refining with this now-inexpensive industrial gas.

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Kurzinski, E.F. New techniques for copper refining. JOM 10, 533–537 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03398243

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