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White Argentan – Whitworth's Compressed Steel

White Argentan

A beautiful silver imitation; nickel 3, copper 8, zinc 35. See SILVER; GERMAN-SILVER; BRITANNIA METAL.

White Arsenic

Arsenious acid, or oxide of arsenic. See ARSENIC.

White Brass

A term used for white alloys. See WHITE ALLOYS.

White Copper

For this mixture see WHITE ALLOYS.

White Copperas

Copperas of sulphate of iron, found in Chili.

White-flux

See FLUX; BLACK-FLUX.

White Iron

See HARD CAST IRON; CAST IRON.

White Metals

See WHITE ALLOYS.

White Rubber

White vulcanite, made by adding white pigments to the sulphur and caoutchouc during the manufacture of vulcanite. See INDIA-RUBBER.

White Tombac

See TOMBAC.

Whiting

Chalk levigated and cleaned from all foreign substances; then made into cakes and dried. See LIME; CHALK.

Whitworth's Compressed Steel

See PRESSING-FLUID STEEL.