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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Earthenware – Explosion

Earthenware

See POTTERY-MOULDING; PORCELAIN.

Edge-smoother

A moulder's tool for finishing angles. The two sides of this smoother, acting together, bring the edge up sharp and true.

Effervescence

The commotion produced in fluids by some part of the mass suddenly taking the elastic form and escaping rapidly in numerous bubbles.

Electro-plating

The process of covering one metal with a thin film of another by the aid of electricity. See PLATING.

Explosion

A sudden and violent expansion of an aerial or other elastic fluid, by which its parts are separated with a loud noise. See VENTING.

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