The technique of nonconsumable-electrode melting in an arc furnace with a graphite crucible enables nonporous titanium carbide parts to be produced. During melting, titanium carbide partially decomposes with the precipitation of free carbon, which dissolves in the carbide during subsequent high-temperature annealing. The carbon content of such specimens is practically stoichiometric.
Translated from Poroshkovaya Metallurgiya, No. 9 (93), pp. 94–98, September, 1970.