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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Isinglass

A very pure form of gelatine prepared from the entrails and air-bladders of fish, notably the sturgeon. It is semi-transparent when pure, and this may perhaps account for applying the name to the sheets of mica employed for sight-holes of cupolas, stoves, etc.

Isinglass is an excellent material for making elastic moulds for obtaining plaster casts. See ELASTIC MOULDS.

Isosceles Triangle is a triangle which has two equal sides.

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