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Bell metal

noun

Bronze with 3 or 4 parts copper to 1 part tin; used in making bells.

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"Bell metal" Quotes from Famous Books

... I will have," announced Jack quietly. "Of course those marks might have been made by any sharp, rusty object. Now the bell metal rusts scarcely at all, but the iron clapper of a bell does. The rust from that runs down inside a bell, and gets on the edges. I took some iron rust from the clapper of the stolen bell and placed it in a test tube. I assumed, for the purpose of ...

— Jack Ranger's Western Trip - From Boarding School to Ranch and Range • Clarence Young

... he discerned beneath him a formidable array of bells hanging from oak supports lined with iron. The sombre bell metal was slick as if oiled and absorbed light without refracting it. Bending backward, he looked into the upper abyss and perceived new batteries of bells overhead. These bore the raised effigy of a bishop, and a place in each, worn by the striking ...

— La-bas • J. K. Huysmans

... or in pigs it becomes an article of commerce which may be introduced in previously determined proportions into bronze, gun metal, bell metal, brass, etc. It may also be used, as we have already mentioned, for the refining of ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 315, January 14, 1882 • Various

... The dishes, of bell metal, were placed on the table, and we took our places. Undoubtedly we had to do with civilised people, and, had it not been for the electric light which flooded us, I could have fancied I was in the dining-room ...

— Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea • Jules Verne

Words linked to "Bell metal" : bronze