white metal


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an alloy (often of lead or tin base) used for bearings

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During the 2017 exploration program, White Metal discovered a new copper-silver showing just north of Far Lake.
The white metal is one of the few undervalued assets in global markets now that Japan's Nikkei Dow index has surged 1,600 points since I flagged Marunouchi as another undervalued theme in this column.
According to the SSPC, a surface blasted to white metal should, without magnification, be free of all visible "oil, grease, dust, dirt, mill scale, rust, coating, oxides, corrosion products, and other foreign matter."
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Most of the coffin hardware was made from brass, iron, Britannia metal, and white metal, she says, and the finishes included silver plating, bronzing, polishing, and lacquering.
Interior surfaces of this carbon steel tank were abrasive blasted to SSPC-SP 10 (near white metal) and thoroughly cleaned prior to purging with nitrogen to minimize rusting during shipment.
As for silver, the report noted that the white metal price was stable during last week's trading at USD 17.3 per ounce, forecasting further increase with the start of industrial demand on the metal.
It has three gears, cream coloured handlebars with a metallic blue bell, a black saddle, and a white metal basket on the front.
Bensenville, IL, February 21, 2014 --(PR.com)-- Chicago White Metal Casting, Inc.
If the spoons were indeed made as part of a set for an institution, they are less likely to be silver and are more likely made of some kind of a durable white metal alloy that looked like silver but stood up to everyday use.
Century Cement found that the total life cycle of the original equipment white metal bearings on its raw mill motor drives was becoming so poor, that it was willing to invest in completely new drive systems, if a lower maintenance more cost effective motor bearing solution could not be found - however Revolvo says it was able to offer a long-life low maintenance SRB split roller bearing solution.
Light weight and easy availability aside, bells of "white metal" (that is, not copper or yellowish brass), were popular with dancers among the Spokanes and their neighbors a century ago.
Built to withstand extreme weather conditions on Europe's highest mountain, the red and white metal tube can sleep up to 12 mountaineers en route from the Italian side of the peak.