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Fusible   /fjˈuzəbəl/   Listen
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Fusible  adj.  CapabIe of being melted or liquefied.
Fusible metal, any alloy of different metals capable of being easily fused, especially an alloy of five parts of bismuth, three of lead, and two of tin, which melts at a temperature below that of boiling water.
Fusible plug (Steam Boiler), a piece of easily fusible alloy, placed in one of the sheets and intended to melt and blow off the steam in case of low water.






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"Fusible" Quotes from Famous Books



... shocked I was to think as any false charges should cause my dear young missus to run away from home in the night-time, like a fusible slave. And hurt I was to think you didn't trust into me ...
— Cruel As The Grave • Mrs. Emma D. E. N. Southworth

... and the employment of higher temperatures led to the production of a highly carbonized, fusible metal, without any special design on the part of the manufacturers in producing it. This pig iron, however, could be used only for a few purposes for which metallic iron was needed; but it was produced cheaply and with little loss of metal, and the attempt ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884. • Various

... It is hard, fusible, not very malleable, but extremely ductile, and very tenacious; it is of a greyish color, and nearly eight times heavier than water. Without iron, society could make no progress in the cultivation of the ground, in mechanical ...
— A Catechism of Familiar Things; Their History, and the Events Which Led to Their Discovery • Benziger Brothers

... the form of the object intended to be cast is such that the pattern cannot be extricated from its mould of sand or plaster, it becomes necessary to make the pattern with wax, or some other easily fusible substance. The sand or plaster is moulded round this pattern, and, by the application of heat, the wax is extricated through an opening ...
— On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures • Charles Babbage

... the adjacent parts and using an easily fusible metal, which is heated up and run between the two, by ...
— Practical Mechanics for Boys • J. S. Zerbe


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