Abstract: Abradable coatings for turbine engine shrouds are formed from biscuits formed of silicon-diffused powdered alloy compositions which are processed with an HE precursor to strip oxides from the coating during processing, the alloy blends comprising MCrAl(Y).sub.n alloys in which n is 0, 1 or more.

Abstract: Centrifugal pump adapted for pumping finely particulate slurries, comprising a steel housing having an inlet and an outlet and a volute therebetween, a motor mounted on the housing, and an impeller rotatably driven within the volute by the motor for pumping fluid through the housing along a flow path extending through the volute and between the inlet and outlet, the pump having surfaces conditioned against erosive wear along the flow path comprising iron carbide and iron boride formed in situ locally at pump steel surfaces subject to erosive wear.