Talk:Wood auger

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I'm not sure the desription of Auger electrons is correct. I've seen it described very differently elsewhere so this interpretation should be used with caution!

-The description of Auger recombination is from Advanced Semiconductor Fundamentals by Robert F Pierret. The key point of the process is when an electron goes from a higher energy state to the lower state, the excess energy is transferred to a second electron, which was already in a higer energy state. In the description I beleive you refer to, that second electron is ejected from the atom. In this description, because we're dealing with a semiconductor crystal, the second electron, as I understand, is in the conduction band initially and is not associated with any particular atom. This second electron is given energy above the normal energy levels in the conduction band, and eventually loses the energy through interactions with the crystal lattice.

-There are some differences in between the descriptions. The description given in Auger electron may be more accurate, maybe not. I'm not an expert enough to know. --69.5.156.155 16:59, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)

The section Auger#Solid_state_physics is almost completely wrong while Auger electron and Auger electron spectroscopy are decent articles. I'm going to wipe out this section unless someone disagrees as there's no reason for the surface science content in this article anyway. Alison Chaiken 22:09, 31 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

What was needed here was a disambiguation page, Auger (disambiguation). A single article should never deal with several completely unrelated concepts, just because they happen to share the same name.--Srleffler 15:58, 1 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, that's much better!--Alison Chaiken 18:29, 1 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm just curious if anyone knows about the seeing into the future type Augur, or is that just a modern fantasy term? Highlandlord 18:47, 16 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thats augury.MadMaxDog 06:21, 18 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Auger[edit]

Would it not be good if someone would expand a bit on this article with little more technical description of the mechanical auger? Common terminalogy including "flighting" "pitch" etc. could be used. Cjind (talk) 16:26, 29 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Merge screw conveyor into this article?[edit]

It seems as though the term "auger" is also used for a screw conveyor. From the articles it looks like "auger" refers to a helical screw blade used to move materials, either enclosed in a tube (a screw conveyor) or not (an auger drill). Should the article Screw conveyor be merged into this article? --Chetvorno^TALK 11:35, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It would be more constructive to split off that meaning of auger into the screw conveyor article, and to focus the auger article on the meaning as a big drill. They are certainly overlapping concepts, but the you would never rever to the drill use by the conveyor term, and it makes sense to distinguish these, so two articles seems like a good thing. Dicklyon (talk) 20:56, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, when I survey dictionaries, I don't see any support for the current definition in the article. It's always a drill. Shouldn't we fix that? Dicklyon (talk) 21:49, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I do see a lot of "auger conveyor" as an alternative to "screw conveyor" though. So let's merge those, under one of those title, and take this article back to being about the auger, of the drill sort, OK? Dicklyon (talk) 21:55, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Split2 Screw conveyor[edit]

As an alternative to the above merge proposal, I suggest we split the material on auger conveyors off to the screw conveyor article, and keep the material about wood and soil augers and other such drills here. Dicklyon (talk) 22:01, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Agree. Seems the most logical organization to me. The hatnotes can be arranged to lead readers to the conveyor sense of the word if that's what they're seeking. — ¾-10 21:47, 25 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Agree. I do see a good deal of reference in industry to "auger conveyors" or "auger material handling systems" 1 2 3 4 5 6 as well as a dictionary entry 7, however I'll agree as long as we include a hatnote or link of some kind. --Chetvorno^TALK 23:02, 1 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I did the first-cut split/merge job on this. Feel free to tune up both ends of it. Dicklyon (talk) 04:12, 2 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I think the above change was misguided - ultimately it is the same physical principle that is being displayed by augers whether they are being used for drilling or for conveying (since a drill is ultimately conveying material away from the surface it drills). "Conveying" here also includes things like using an auger for compressing, grinding, and propelling. There is no good reason for separating the two. FOARP (talk) 08:57, 27 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Toilet Auger[edit]

also called a Closet Auger, should be mentioned ==

Cleanup[edit]

Wow, this really needs it.--Ifrit (Talk) 12:57, 8 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Put disambiguation at top of page[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Could someone please add? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.194.145.89 (talk) 09:34, 4 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]