A mastic type filler made from chalk or lime mixed with linseed oil.

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ACETONE

A filler added to acetylene cylinders, capable of absorbing 25 times its own volume of acetylene.

BRAZE WELD OR BRAZING

A process of joining metals using a nonferrous filler metal or alloy, the melting point of which is higher than 800 degrees F(427 degrees C) but lower than that of the metals to be joined.

WELDING

A process of joining metals by heating until they are fused together, or by heating and applying pressure until there is a plastic joining action. Filler metal may or may not be used.

INCLUSION

Impurities enclosed within the filler material of a weld.

MIG WELDING

Also termed gas metal arc welding. An arc welding process that produces the coalescence of metals by heating them with an arc between continuous filler metal electrode and the work. Shielding is obtained from an external supplied gas source.

FILLER

A paste applied to fill the grain of wood before applying varnish or paint.

LIME

A common water treatment chemical.

CALCIMETER

An instrument for estimating the amount of lime in soils.

COLD LIME-SODA PROCESS

A watersoftening process in which water is treated with hydrated lime (sometimes in combination with soda ash), which reacts with dissolved calcium and magnesium compounds to form precipitates that can be removed as sludge.

LIMING

Soaking hides and skins in milk of lime and causing them to swell, to facilitate the removal of hair.

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