Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering : illustrated with four thousand engravings on wood ; in two volumes (1873)
D. Appleton and Company · New York : D. Appleton and Co. · leaf 123
.In this way, plate after plate, weighing from 25 to 50 lbs. each, is formed in intervals of hardly a minute.Only gray iron, from fusible materials, will chill in tliis way. The plates thus made are roasted, i. e.,exposed for 10 or 12 hours to a red-heat, either in an appropriate oven or in an open… … Tlie second fusion to whiten iron, is what the French term mazeage, and the English runtiing out otlining. Tliis is very much such a process and in such a furnace as has been described under the formernietliod of refining, only it is not carried so fiir, and the metal, instead of being lifted and…
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