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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A trade-name of a material used for protecting iron and steel from rust, consisting of tar from fat gas-producers, refined Trinidad asphalt, and refined asphalt-oil. Sometimes sulphur is used instead of the last two constituents, the gas-tar being heated with it.
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hernesheir commented on the word siderosthen
One must search long for a dictionary entry containing the phrase "fat gas-producers", as does the one for this word.
January 3, 2012