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The practical metal-worker's assistant : containing the arts of working all metals and alloys, forging of iron and steel, hardening and tempering, melting and mixing, casting and founding, works in sheet metal, the processes dependent on the ductility of the metals, soldering, and the most improved processes, and tools employed by metal-workers, with the application of the art of electro-metallurgy to manufacturing processes : collected from original sources, and from the works of Holtzapffel, Bergeron, Leupold, Plumier, Napier, and others ... (1851)

Byrne, Oliver · Philadelphia : H.C. Baird · leaf 43

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the kinds to be preferredare such as are dense and free from metallic matters, as these aregenerally accompanied with sulphur, which is highly detrimental. 38 FORGING IRON AND STEEL. Copper is usually forged in a coke fire; silver and gold in thosemade of charcoal; but the hearths do not materially… … The fire is sometimes made open, at other times hollow, or like atunnel; and the larger the fire is required to be, so much the moredistant is it situated from the tuyere iron. Before lighting the fire,the useful cinders are first turned back on the hearth, and the ex-hausted dust or slack is…

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