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Fusion :: Fusion (v. t.) The act or operation of melting or rendering fluid by heat; the act of melting together; as, the fusion of metals..

Stuff :: Stuff (v. t.) A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for lubrication..

Foge :: Foge (n.) The Cornish name for a forge used for smelting tin.

Capsule :: Capsule (n.) A small saucer of clay for roasting or melting samples of ores, etc.; a scorifier..

Sublimed :: Sublime (v. i.) To pass off in vapor, with immediate condensation; specifically, to evaporate or volatilize from the solid state without apparent melting; -- said of those substances, like arsenic, benzoic acid, etc., which do not exhibit a liquid form on heating, except under increased pressure..

Melton :: Melton (n.) A kind of stout woolen cloth with unfinished face and without raised nap. A commoner variety has a cotton warp.

Slacken :: Slacken (n.) A spongy, semivitrifled substance which miners or smelters mix with the ores of metals to prevent their fusion..

Illiquation :: Illiquation (n.) The melting or dissolving of one thing into another.

Cupola :: Cupola (n.) A furnace for melting iron or other metals in large quantity, -- used chiefly in foundries and steel works..

Deliquium :: Deliquium (n.) A melting or maudlin mood.

Pemmican :: Pemmican (n.) Meat, without the fat, cut in thin slices, dried in the sun, pounded, then mixed with melted fat and sometimes dried fruit, and compressed into cakes or in bags. It contains much nutriment in small compass, and is of great use in long voyages of exploration..

Asphaltum :: Asphaltum (n.) Mineral pitch, Jews' pitch, or compact native bitumen. It is brittle, of a black or brown color and high luster on a surface of fracture; it melts and burns when heated, leaving no residue. It occurs on the surface and shores of the Dead Sea, which is therefore called Asphaltites, or the Asphaltic Lake. It is found also in many parts of Asia, Europe, and America. See Bitumen..

Smeltie :: Smeltie (n.) A fish, the bib..

Kish :: Kish (n.) A workman's name for the graphite which forms incidentally in iron smelting.

Matte :: Matte (n.) A partly reduced copper sulphide, obtained by alternately roasting and melting copper ore in separating the metal from associated iron ores, and called coarse metal, fine metal, etc., according to the grade of fineness. On the exterior it is dark brown or black, but on a fresh surface is yellow or bronzy in color..

Oleic :: Oleic (a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or contained in, oil; as, oleic acid, an acid of the acrylic acid series found combined with glyceryl in the form of olein in certain animal and vegetable fats and oils, such as sperm oil, olive oil, etc. At low temperatures the acid is crystalline, but melts to an oily liquid above 14/ C..

Sprue :: Sprue (n.) Strictly, the hole through which melted metal is poured into the gate, and thence into the mold..

Gluepot :: Gluepot (n.) A utensil for melting glue, consisting of an inner pot holding the glue, immersed in an outer one containing water which is heated to soften the glue..

Liquescent :: Liquescent (a.) Tending to become liquid; inclined to melt; melting.

Sperling :: Sperling (n.) A smelt; a sparling.

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