单词 | silver lead |
释义 | silver lead Also silver-lead. †1. A composition of lead and tin. Obs.
1601Holland Pliny II. 517 There is another deuise to sophisticate tin, to wit, by mixing white and blacke lead one with another.., and this maslen some call at this day, siluer lead or argentine. 2. Silver in combination with lead, esp. in the form of ore. Chiefly attrib.
1860Piesse Lab. Chem. Wonders 80 Small portions are also obtained from the silver-lead mines of ‘Old England’. 1877Raymond Statist. Mines & Min. 227 The mines..possess as much..value as those of any other silver-lead camp on the coast. 1879Cassell's Techn. Educ. IV. 111/2 A button of silver lead is the result. Ibid., The assay of silver lead ores. |

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