putty powder
an abrasive consisting chiefly of stannic oxide, used for polishing hard surfaces.
Origin of putty powder
1- Also called putty, jeweler's putty .
Words Nearby putty powder
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How to use putty powder in a sentence
The four Dillons, of Ballyhaunis, gave out to their grooms a large assortment of pipe-clay and putty-powder.
The Kellys and the O'Kellys | Anthony TrollopeThere is a finishing process of polishing with putty powder.
The Pansy Magazine, June 1886 | VariousFor example, one part by weight of tin becomes, on calcining, 1.271 parts of oxide (putty powder).
A Textbook of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. | Cornelius Beringer and John Jacob BeringerA dry leather should then remove the oil, and a polish should afterwards be given with putty powder on a dry clean leather.
Mrs. Hale's Receipts for the Million | Sarah Josepha HalePolishing is effected by wooden wheels fed with wet pumice-powder and rottenstone and by brushes fed with moistened putty-powder.
British Dictionary definitions for putty powder
a powder, either tin oxide or tin and lead oxide, used for polishing glassware, metal, etc
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