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Scientific American, Vol. 20, No. 24 (June 1869) (1869)

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very great expansion in bulkwhich mineral oils undergo by increase of temperature. Ifpetroleum has been barreled during the cold season, it willexpand largely with the first appearance of hot weather, andwill then burst the containing vessels, on the same principlethat ice ruptures our water… … JIow Bronze Statues are Cast. Among the various branches of fine-artmetal work, the casting of bronze statuary,a chef-dwuvre of Blkingtons establishment,possesses perhaps as many points of inter-est as any. A leading process of bronzecasting is known, says the Engineer, as thecire perdue, or wax…

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