Definition for AL'MOND-FURN-ACE

AL'MOND-FURN-ACE, n.

among refiners, is a furnace in which the slags of litharge, left in refining silver, are reduced to lead, by the help of charcoal; that is, according to modern chimistry, in which the oxyd of lead is deoxydized and the metal revived.

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