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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3 entries in this part of The Encyclopedia of Founding.

Zinc

A brilliant bluish-white metal, found in nature in combination with sulphur as zinc blende, and with oxygen and carbonic acid as calamine…

Zinc-coating

Copper and brass articles may be permanently coated with a layer of pure zinc by boiling them in a solution of chloride of zinc, with an…

Zinc-plating

See GALVANIZED IRON. Zinc, Reducing the Oxide of.--Have a large pot that will hold about five hundred pounds of the oxide; place it over…

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