Ductile Iron – Past, Present and Future 1 Applications for ductile Irons 6 Standard Specifications 13 Fundamentals of Metallurgy and Metallography of ductile Irons 24 What it Takes to Found Ductile Iron 39 Melting the Ductile Iron Base 40 Charge Materials 50 Desulfurizing 52 Spheroldizing 54 Inoculation 71 Selecting Chemical Composition 77 Gating 101 Ri…