braze
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /bɹeɪz/
braze (brazes, present participle brazing; past and past participle brazed)
- To join two metal pieces, without melting them, using heat and diffusion of a jointing alloy of capillary thickness.
- (obsolete) To burn or temper in fire.
- French: braser
- Russian: припаивать
braze (plural brazes)
- A kind of small charcoal used for roasting ore.
- 1877, Charles P. Williams, Industrial Report on Lead, Zinc and Iron, Together with Notes on Shannon County and Its Copper Deposits, Regan & Carter, page 144 ↗:
- Roasting the ores is done with the charcoal braze (or fine charcoal from the charring) in heaps of thirty feet width, fifty-feet length and twenty feet height, containing 3,200 tons.
- 1877, Charles P. Williams, Industrial Report on Lead, Zinc and Iron, Together with Notes on Shannon County and Its Copper Deposits, Regan & Carter, page 144 ↗:
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