Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics: a dictionary of mechanical engineering and the mechanical arts (1880)
D. Appleton and Company, Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 196
, stirring, and spreading thewhole about in the furnace, till it loses its fusibility, and is flourished or brought to nature. Assoon as the iron is sufficiently in nature, it is to be collected together in lumps called loops, of sizessuited to the intended uses, and so drawn out of the door or… … 244T.
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