The Encyclopedia of Founding

Twelve hundred entries from the golden age of cast metal — how bells are founded, why brass is not bronze, what a cupola melts and a core withstands — by Simpson Bolland, the trade's great teacher.

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Congelation

The transition of a liquid to a solid state in consequence of the abstraction of heat, or through the effect of pressure. Metals, oil, water, etc., congeal when they change from a fluid to the solid state. In the foundry, it is common to term these phenomena as "setting," "freezing."

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