The crude steel was in a pasty state and the slag fluid ; the ... to an empty, but hot reverberatory furnace, where, in about an hour's time, it was raised to a welding heat, and forged into ...

While not all fabrication-related words share the grimly evocative histories of slag and flux, they nonetheless contain fascinating stories. For example, the verb weld comes from a form of the verb ...

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