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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Imitation Gold – Iron-wire Cloth

Imitation Gold

An alloy of baser metals which produces a yellow compound metal resembling gold. See GOLD ALLOY; TOMBAC.

Incoherent

Wanting in coherence or cohesion; unconnected; loose, not joined to each other, as the particles in free sand.

Infusible

Cannot be melted, dissolved, or infused. Proof against fusion, as an infusible sand or crucible. See REFRACTORY MATERIALS.

Ingate

See GATE.

Iron-wire Cloth

See WIRE-CLOTH.

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