 | Campbell Morfit - 2007 - 636 Seiten
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 | 1847 - 964 Seiten
...mineral, is more used at the present day than any of the metals which we have named. It is composed of eight parts of bismuth, five of lead, and three of tin, and this compound is rendered more fusible by the addition of a tenth of mercury; but this addition,... | |
 | Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.) - 1843 - 442 Seiten
...assumed the solid form. The alloy experimented on was that known as Newton's fusible metal, composed of eight parts of bismuth, five of lead, and three of tin. On pouring this alloy, in the melted state, on a marble slab, and breaking it as soon as solid, and... | |
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... will prevent the metal from running away, and in a few minutes it will cool and take the impression, without the slightest injury to the paper from which it was taken. 
