| 单词 | putty of tin |
| 释义 | > as lemmasputty of tin 2. In full putty powder. An abrasive powder composed of tin oxide, or of tin and lead oxides, used for polishing glass or metal. Also jeweller's putty n. at jeweller n. Compounds 2, †putty of tin. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > polishing > [noun] > polish > types of pumice1422 emery1481 foam of copperas1538 pumex1589 emery-stone1610 smiris1610 putty1663 rottenstone1677 tutty1731 French rouge?1745 rotstone1767 plate powder1786 emery-powder18.. rouge1808 waxing1825 black lead1830 tin-putty1839 red stuff1844 stove-polish1858 crocusa1861 crocus-powder1873 furniture cream1873 grit-emery1884 silver polish1895 Ronuk1896 Brasso1905 floor polish1907 lavender cream1926 lavender polish1961 lavender wax1970 1663 R. Boyle Exper. & Consid. Colours ii. xiii The common putty, that is sold and used so much in shops, instead of being, as it is pretended and ought to be, only the calx of tin, is by the artificers that make it, to save the charge of tin, made..but of half tin and half lead, if not far more lead than tin. 1670 J. Flamsteed Let. 24 Jan. in Corr. (1995) I. 33 I entend to grind with ordinary sand fine dressed, and polish first with chalke after with Putty. 1763 W. Lewis Commercium Philosophico-technicum 58 Fine powder, called putty prepared by calcining a mixture of lead and tin. 1778 J. Aikin tr. A. Beaumé Man. Chem. 144 The calx acquires a white colour, and a good deal of hardness, and is then called putty. This is used for polishing glass, steel, and other hard bodies. 1823 Times 8 Oct. 4/4 (advt.) All the genuine stock in trade of an oil and colour man, comprising white lead, pipe lead, Prussian blue,..putty powder, &c. 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1241 When [tin is] heated to redness, with free access of air, it absorbs oxygen with rapidity, and changes first into a pulverulent gray protoxide, and by longer ignition, into a yellow-white powder, called putty of tin. 1871 J. T. Trowbridge Lawrence's Adventures iii. viii. 80 Here the surface is polished on a wooden wheel... For the finest work, a cork wheel is used, with what we call putty,—a paste composed of lead and tin. 1889 Newark (Ohio) Daily Advocate 8 Mar. Jeweler's putty is oxide of tin. 1937 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 160 511 Carborundum..is definitely more efficient in increasing the reflexion of a silica surface than rouge or putty powder used in the same way. 1971 Country Life 9 Sept. 638/3 Transparency was restored by polishing with a wheel of cork fed with putty powder and water. 2003 Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 24 Aug. 8/2 Putty powder (tin oxide) can be used to polish dulled or etched surfaces... However, it's very hard to find. < as lemmas |
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