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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5 entries in this part of The Encyclopedia of Founding.

Kaolin

A pure white clay resulting from the decomposition of feldspar in granitic rocks. The materials employed by the Chinese for the manufacture…

Kettle

A vessel of iron or other metal used for the purpose of heating or boiling liquids, or melting metals. The common method of moulding a…

Kiln

An oven or stove which may be heated for the purpose of drying, hardening, or burning anything. Kilns are used for roasting or calcining…

Kish

When rich gray iron in a state of fusion is permitted to cool very slowly, a graphitic substance, resembling plumbago, gradually separates…

Kara-Kane – Kustitien's Tinning Metal

The name given by the Japanese to their celebrated bronze mixtures for bells. See JAPANESE BRONZE-WORK. See TESTING-MACHINES.

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