soldant

An obsolete form of sultan. soldanel (sol'da-nel), n. A plant of the genus Soldan ell a. Also written soldanelle. 5753 solder (sod'er or sol'der), n. [Early mod. E. also soulder, soder, sowder (dial. also sawder ); Pr. soldar, soudar = Sp. Pg. soldar = lt. sold are, sodare, IMG:content-1482.jpg:[ocr errors] Tools and Materials used in Soldering. iron; c, rosin-box; d, d, shavers or a, bar of solder, soldering: scrapers, used for cleaning surfaces and leveling down protuberances or lumps in the soft solder after it is applied. by chemical attraction and partly by cohesive force, binds them together. After cleaning the edges to be joined, the workman applies a solution of zinc in hydro⚫chloric acid and also powdered rosin to the cleaned surfaces; then he touches the heated soldering-iron to the rosin, and holding the solder-bar and iron over the parts to be joined melts off little drops of solder at intervals along the margins, and runs all together with the hot iron. There are many of these alloys, as soft solder used for tinware, hard solder for bra and iron, gold solder, silver solder, spelter solder, plumbers' solder, etc. Every kind is used at its own melting-point, which must always be lower than that of the metals to be united, soft solders being the most fusible. To soder such gold, there is a proper glew or soder. Holland, tr. of Pliny, xxxiii. 5. Hence-2. Figuratively, that which unites in any way. Friendship! mysterious cement of the soul, Sweetener of life, and solder of society. Blair, The Grave, 1. 89. IMG:content-1483.jpg:[blocks in formation] solder (sod'èr or sol'der), v. t. [Early mod. E. also soulder, soder, sowder; I sowder a metall with sowlder. Je soulde. Palsgrave , p. 725. 2. Figuratively, to close up or unite firmly by any means. As if the world should cleaue, and that slaine men Should soader vp the Rift. Shak ., A. and C. (folio 1623), iii. 4. 32. Would my lips had been soldered when I spake on 't! B. Jonson, Epicœne, ii. 2. solderer (sod'ér-èr or sol'der-ér), n. [ Autogenous soldering. See autogenous. - Galvanic soldering, the proce of uniting two pieces of metal by means of another metal deposited between them through the agency of a voltaic current. - Soldering nipple. See nipple.