单词 | clichy |
释义 | Clichyn. Now historical and rare. attributive. Designating a pure form of white lead manufactured at Clichy in France, or the process used there to produce this, as Clichy process, Clichy white. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > base metal > [noun] > lead > types of pot lead1584 plumbagine1656 slag lead1668 work lead1800 Clichy1840 1840 Amer. Repertory Arts, Sci., & Manuf. Mar. 90 The article of commerce, known in France as the ‘Clichy white lead’. 1841 Amer. Repertory Arts, Sci., & Manuf. June 362 Mr. Smith Gardener..can make white lead direct from the metal as purely white as that formed by the clichy process. 1852 C. Tomlinson Cycl. Useful Arts (1854) II. 118/2 The celebrated Clichy white (made at Clichy, near Paris) is prepared as follows. 1903 Engin. & Mining Jrnl. 30 May 826/3 If he is given Clichy white he will never call it white lead in spite of what all the chemists in the world might say. 1946 Thorpe's Dict. Appl. Chem. (ed. 4) VII. 248/2 Some of the methods [of making white lead] are based on the old process, that is, they use lead acetate as intermediary; examples of these are the French or Clichy, and the Carter process. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1840 |
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