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Welding Powder

For iron or steel, or both together, calcine and pulverize together 100 parts iron or steel filings, 10 salammoniac, 6 borax, 5 balsam copaiba. One of the pieces is to be heated red, carefully cleaned of scale, the composition is to be spread upon it, and the other piece applied at a white heat and welded with the hammer.

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