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Fusible metal   /fjˈuzəbəl mˈɛtəl/   Listen
Fusible metal

noun
1.
An alloy with a low melting point and used as solder and in safety plugs and sprinkler fuses.






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"Fusible metal" Quotes from Famous Books



... which fuses in a much lower degree of heat. So long as this alloy remains cold, and both metals are in the solid state, the mixture is malleable; but, if heated to a sufficient degree to liquify the more fusible metal, the particles of the liquid metal, which are interposed between the particles of the metal remaining solid, must destroy their continuity, and occasion the alloy to become brittle. The alloys of mercury, with the other metals, have usually been ...
— Elements of Chemistry, - In a New Systematic Order, Containing all the Modern Discoveries • Antoine Lavoisier



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