TYPE METAL
Dictionary of Science, Literature and Art · 1842 · p. 48
The alloy of lead and antimony used in casting printers' types. One part of antimony to three of lead are the usual proportions. This alloy takes a sharp impre ion from the mould or matrix, and is hard enough to stand the work of the pre , without being brittle or liable to fracture. [s. 1285]
Readham'da tam maddeyi gor →