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A milligram of PyrE deposited on a disc of filter paper long since discarded, forgotten, rounded up in a waste paper drive and at last pulped into a mould for type-metal, destroyed the entire late-night edition of the Glasgow Observer.
Tiger! Tiger! Bester, Alfred 1955
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The steps of its manufacture are in this order: drawing the design, producing of a metal pattern therefrom, placing the pattern either in the engraving machine to produce steel punches and type-metal originals, or in the matrix-engraving machine to produce matrices, adjusting the matrix to the mould, and finally, casting the type.
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The tinfoil sticks to the back of the copper, and on the back of this is poured melted type-metal, until a solid plate has been formed, the surface of which is the copper facsimile and the body white metal.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885 Various
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In stereotyping, a plaster of Paris mould is taken from the types, and upon this mould melted type-metal is poured, which, when hardened, makes a solid plate.
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A film of copper is deposited on the blacklead surface of the mould; and when this shell is sufficiently thick, it is taken from the bath, the wax removed, the shell trimmed, the back tinned, straightened, backed with an alloy of type-metal, then shaved to a thickness, and mounted on a block to make it type-high.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885 Various
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Into this mould the type-metal is poured and the plate formed.
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Then the pulpy paper is taken off, and curved with just such a curve as the cylinders of the printing-press have, and melted type metal is poured over it, which cools in a moment; when, lo, there is a curving plate of type-metal just like the type!
Illustrated Science for Boys and Girls Anonymous
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To justify is to so increase the distance between the words by the introduction of type-metal "spaces" as to enable the characters to exactly fill the line.
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An em quadrat is an elongated cube of type-metal, on which three of the elongated surfaces are plain, whilst the fourth bears grooved marks which indicate the fount of type to which it belongs.
Despair's Last Journey David Christie Murray
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Other important alloys include type-metal (lead, antimony, and tin), which has the property of expanding on solidification; "hard lead," a lead-antimony alloy used in making acid-resisting valves; Britannia or white metal
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