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Excerpt from Modern Foundry Practice: Dealing With the Green-Sand, Dry-Sand and Loam Moulding Processes; The Materials Used; Also Detailed Descriptions of the Machinery and Other Appliances Employed; With Practical Examples and Rules, Including Revised Subject Matter and Tables From N. E. Spr As it is the founder's business to deal largely with his iron in the form of pigs, which be subsequently melts so that it may be con veniently poured into moulds to form castings of every conceivable form, such as may be required for the various fundamental parts of machinery, engines, also many other useful and ornamental appliances, prominence is given here to those questions with regard to the composition of cast iron, and the characteristic properties produced by each element, such as, for instance, the fusibility, ultimate strength, toughness, etc, of cast iron generally. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.