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Coagulate – Corsican Furnace

Coagulate

To change from a fluid to an inspissated state; to concrete, to clot, to thicken.

Coal-oil

See PETROLEUM; TAR.

Coal-tar

See TAR.

Cold-tinning

See TINNING.

COMMON Pewter

See PEWTER.

Compound

To mingle or unite two or more ingredients in one mass, or a substance composed of two or more elements joined by chemical affinity.

Compressed Steel

See PRESSING FLUID STEEL.

Concave and Convex Moulds

See MEDALS.

Contraction

See SHRINKAGE.

Core-oven

See OVEN.

Core-stove

An oven in which to dry cores. See OVEN.

Corsican Furnace

A smelting-furnace similar in nearly all respects to the Catalan Forge. See CATALAN FORGE.

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