Fused
[fjʊzd]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Fuse
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Examples
- Carez, a printer of Toul, who, in 1791, endeavoured to obtain casts in lead from a page of type, by allowing it to drop on the fused metal when it was in a state of setting. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- All metallic sodium and potassium are now obtained by electrolysis of fused hydroxides or chlorides (Pats. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- In 1892 it was discovered that lime and coal fused together in the intense heat of the electric furnace formed a crystalline, metallic-looking substance called calcium carbide. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- It blushed so ruddily and vividly, that the hues of the walls and the variegated tints of the dresses seemed all fused in one warm glow. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- It was Selden himself who unwittingly fused the group by arresting the attention of one of its members. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Metals are fused and welded by the use of the electric current. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- All the devouring and insatiate Monsters imagined since imagination could record itself, are fused in the one realisation, Guillotine. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- He has fused the insight of the syndicalist with the plans of the collectivists under the name of Guild Socialism. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It has, however, for the most parts been superseded by the process patented by Hall, April 2, 1889, No. 400,766, in which alumina dissolved in fused cryolite is electrically decomposed. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The fused metal sinks to a basin in the bottom of the furnace, and the slag or impurities run off above the level of the basin at the side of the furnace. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The limestone must be burned to quicklime and the quicklime and coke must be fused together to form calcium carbide. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Hall conjectured in addition that the rate at which the fused mass cooled might have some bearing on the structure of igneou s rocks. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- To be distinguished from synthetic gems are reconstructed stones, which (as yet only done with the ruby) are pieces of the natural stone fused together. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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