Wood's metal
English
Etymology
Named after Barnabas Wood, American dentist and inventor.
Noun
- A fusible alloy consisting of one or two parts of cadmium, two parts of tin, four of lead, and seven or eight of bismuth.
- Synonym: Lipowitz's alloy
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for Wood's metal in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
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