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Billon :: Billon (n.) An alloy of gold and silver with a large proportion of copper or other base metal, used in coinage..

Tombac :: Tombac (n.) An alloy of copper and zinc, resembling brass, and containing about 84 per cent of copper; -- called also German, / Dutch, brass. It is very malleable and ductile, and when beaten into thin leaves is sometimes called Dutch metal. The addition of arsenic makes white tombac..

Crucible :: Crucible (n.) A vessel or melting pot, composed of some very refractory substance, as clay, graphite, platinum, and used for melting and calcining substances which require a strong degree of heat, as metals, ores, etc..

Thin :: Thin (superl.) Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite; as, a thin plate of metal; thin paper; a thin board; a thin covering..

Oligosiderite :: Oligosiderite (n.) A meteorite characterized by the presence of but a small amount of metallic iron.

Negative :: Negative (a.) Metalloidal; nonmetallic; -- contracted with positive or basic; as, the nitro group is negative..

Brass :: Brass (n.) A journal bearing, so called because frequently made of brass. A brass is often lined with a softer metal, when the latter is generally called a white metal lining. See Axle box, Journal Box, and Bearing..

Monazite :: Monazite (n.) A mineral occurring usually in small isolated crystals, -- a phosphate of the cerium metals..

Die :: Die (n.) A perforated block, commonly of hardened steel used in connection with a punch, for punching holes, as through plates, or blanks from plates, or for forming cups or capsules, as from sheet metal, by drawing..

Hammer-harden :: Hammer-harden (v. t.) To harden, as a metal, by hammering it in the cold state..

Bolster :: Bolster (n.) The metallic end of a pocketknife handle.

Mandrel :: Mandrel (n.) A bar of metal inserted in the work to shape it, or to hold it, as in a lathe, during the process of manufacture; an arbor..

Gangue :: Gangue (n.) The mineral or earthy substance associated with metallic ore.

Can :: Can (n.) A vessel or case of tinned iron or of sheet metal, of various forms, but usually cylindrical; as, a can of tomatoes; an oil can; a milk can..

Pelopium :: Pelopium (n.) A supposed new metal found in columbite, afterwards shown to be identical with columbium, or niobium..

Swage :: Swage (n.) A tool, variously shaped or grooved on the end or face, used by blacksmiths and other workers in metals, for shaping their work, whether sheet metal or forging, by holding the swage upon the work, or the work upon the swage, and striking with a sledge..

Tellurium :: Tellurium (n.) A rare nonmetallic element, analogous to sulphur and selenium, occasionally found native as a substance of a silver-white metallic luster, but usually combined with metals, as with gold and silver in the mineral sylvanite, with mercury in Coloradoite, etc. Symbol Te. Atomic weight 125.2..

Casting :: Casting (n.) The act or process of making casts or impressions, or of shaping metal or plaster in a mold; the act or the process of pouring molten metal into a mold..

Burr :: Burr (n.) The thin edge or ridge left by a tool in cutting or shaping metal, as in turning, engraving, pressing, etc.; also, the rough neck left on a bullet in casting..

Metallization :: Metallization (n.) The act or process of metallizing.

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