1 What Is Soldering?
What exactly is soldering? Fortunately, we can probably agree on what it is a lot more easily than we can agree on how to pronounce it! Is it sah-der-ing or soul-der-ing? How you pronounce it depends largely on where you live, so the debate will continue—but, really, how you say it is up to you!
No matter how you pronounce soldering, in its most basic form it is a mechanical connection between two or more similar or dissimilar materials made by heating and melting a third “filler” material (see Figure 1-1). The two materials you’re joining do not melt during the process of soldering—only the solder melts. It’s a fairly ...
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