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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Gravity

See SPECIFIC GRAVITY.

Gray Pig-iron is all pig-iron that contains a large proportion of its carbon in a graphitic state. Such irons may be distinguished by their crystalline fracture and dark-gray color. See CAST IRON.

Green-sand is moulding-sand in a moist condition, and suitably mixed to form moulds in which the metal can be poured at once, without subsequent drying. See FACING-SAND; DRY-SAND MOULDING; GREEN-SAND MOULDING; DAMPNESS.

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