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I′ron—bottle.

An iron bottle with a screw-plug, for holding quicksilver. It is made by swaging and drawing from a disk of tough wrought-iron. After being brought by swaging to the form of an openended cylinder, it is put on a steel mandrel and driven through holes of decreasing dimensions till it becomes a long cylinder. The neck is pressed and twisted info shape and fitted with a screw-stopper.

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