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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 2 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 35. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 2 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: June 7, 1862., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
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s solder. Hard solder.Tombac. Imitation gold.Tula metal. Journal-box metal.Tutenag. Manheim gold.Type-metal. Minargent.White brass. Mock gold.White malleable alloy. Mock platinum.White metals. Mock silver.Wootz. Mosaic gold.Yellow metal. Muntz's metal. Al′ma-dy. (Vessel.) An African canoe made of the bark of trees. Al′man. (Metallurgy.) A furnace used by refiners for separating metals. See almond-furnace. Al′mond-furnace. The word is probably corrupted from Alman (Allemand, German) furnace. Wathew's almond-peeler. A furnace used by refiners for separating all kinds of metals from cinders, etc. Al′--mondpeel′er. A small machine used by confectioners and cooks. Wathew's almond — peeler, October 30, 1866. The thin peel is removed from the scalded almond kernels by passing them between two elastic bands of India-rubber, traversing side by side in the same direction, at different velocities. Almonds came from Persia, and were