Welding vs. Brazing — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Welding and Brazing
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Welding
Welding is a fabrication process that joins materials, usually metals or thermoplastics, by using high heat to melt the parts together and allowing them to cool, causing fusion. Welding is distinct from lower temperature metal-joining techniques such as brazing and soldering, which do not melt the base metal.
Brazing
Brazing is a metal-joining process in which two or more metal items are joined together by melting and flowing a filler metal into the joint, with the filler metal having a lower melting point than the adjoining metal. Brazing differs from welding in that it does not involve melting the work pieces and from soldering in using higher temperatures for a similar process, while also requiring much more closely fitted parts than when soldering.
Welding
To join (metals) by applying heat, sometimes with pressure and sometimes with an intermediate or filler metal having a high melting point.
Brazing
To make of or decorate with brass.
Welding
To bring into close association or union.
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Brazing
To make hard like brass.
Welding
To be capable of being welded.
Brazing
To solder (two pieces of metal) together using a hard solder with a high melting point.
Welding
The union of two metal parts by welding.
Brazing
Present participle of braze
Welding
The joint formed by welding.
Brazing
A method of joining metals by using heat and a filler
Welding
Present participle of weld
Welding
The action or process of welding:
Welding
Joining two materials (especially two metals) together by applying heat, pressure and filler, either separately or in any combination, or
Welding
Binding together inseparably; uniting closely or intimately.
Welding
Fastening two pieces of metal together by softening with heat and applying pressure
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