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Founding.(a) Designating iron refined in a run-out furnace; (b) designating a furnace heated by coke and open at the top in which pig iron is…
attributive. Designating a method of separating nickel from copper by making use of the difference in the solubilities of their sulphides in molten…
Metallurgy. Of copper: brittle through being poled too much (cf. overpole, v. 2).