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Definition of Britannia metal
1. Noun. An alloy similar to pewter.
Definition of Britannia metal
1. Noun. an alloy of tin with copper and antimony; somewhat like pewter ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Britannia Metal
Literary usage of Britannia metal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Progressive Improvement & Present State of the by Robert Hunt, John Holland (1853)
"The modern material, the base of which is tin, has been called Prince's metal,
more commonly Britannia metal, and by the workmen white metal. ..."
2. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the by James Terry White (1895)
"He received a limited public-school education, and was placed with his father in
the Britannia metal and electro-plate trade at an early age, ..."
3. Engineering Chemistry: A Manual of Quantitative Chemical Analysis by Thomas Bliss Stillman (1897)
"Delta metal1 or "Sterro" •- 60 38.2(1.8Fe)" Muntz metal 60 40 " Alloys of the
second class may comprise Babbitt metal, Britannia metal, type metal, solder, ..."
4. A French-English Dictionary for Chemists by Austin McDowell Patterson (1921)
"britannique, Britannia metal, britannia. — brut, raw metal, coarse metal.
— console, an alloy of copper, zinc and tin. — d'Aick, Aich metal (alloy of copper ..."
5. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1908)
"The general details of the method having been thus settled, analyses were made
of pure tin from Kahlbaum, ferro-tin, and Britannia metal with satisfactory ..."
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