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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Rouge

The light-red powder used for polishing speculums, and extensively employed by jewellers for polishing glass and metal work. The protosulphate of iron is calcined until nothing remains but the anhydrous sesquioxide, which is afterwards submitted to fine levigagation. See SPECULUM; LEVIGATION.

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