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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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Diameter

A line, which passing through the centre of a circle or other curvilinear figure, divides it or its ordinates in two equal parts. Also, the length of a straight line through the centre of an object, from side to side, as the diameter of a cylinder, fly-wheel, etc.

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