It is backed up with a solid filling of type metal.

Type metal should not adhere to the copper of the matrix.

A piece of type metal used for filling spaces.

It was also not uncommon for some of the type metal to be projected up onto the ceiling, no matter the height.

Underneath was a pot of molten type metal and a plunger.

Walked back to the Linotype and turned the switch that would start melting the type metal in the pot.

The enormous effort to create an alloy with the characteristics needed in an ideal type metal is often underestimated.

Every time type metal is remelted, tin and antimony oxidise.

Type metal should be strong and lasting, to endure wear and pressure while printing.

Brass spaces contain zinc, which is extremely counterproductive in type metal.

Type metal should produce a true and sharp cast, and reproduce the matrix in all detail.

It splattered across type metal and old rocking horses and dwarfs.

Other alloys containing antimony include pewter and type metal.

This method injects molten type metal into a mold that has the shape of one or more glyphs.

A rectangular tube was then connected to the matrix, creating a container in which molten type metal could be poured.

This dross still contains type metal.

Characters cast from contaminated type metal such as this are of inferior quality, the solution being to discard and replace with fresh alloy.

Then he dropped every other scrap of type metal in the office into the deepest part of Yancy Creek.

In typesetting, a slug is a piece of lead or other type metal, in any of several specific word senses.

Thurleigh was unique among bomber bases in having four T2 type metal hangars where most bases had only two.

Molten type metal alloy would be carefully poured into a straight-sided vertical cavity at the top of the mould.

The assembled line is then cast as a single piece, called a slug, of type metal in a process known as "hot metal" typesetting.

It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal.

These alloys were proportioned such that the type metal would solidify as rapidly as possible at the lowest possible freezing point.

Behind the mold disk is the type metal pot, which contains molten type metal.

So the paper's first seven issues were produced on old, hot metal.

The sun slapped my back like a hot metal hand.

The screaming of hot metal was all that he could hear.

Then his head fell on the hot metal of the tube.

In a few minutes the hot metal had burned through the last fiber.

Her anger was like hot metal shoved against my skin.

One way or another they were around thousand-degree hot metal.

The smell of hot metal and gun smoke filled the air.

His feet jarred against earth, and he let go of them as though their arms were hot metal.

For a long moment there was no sound but the creak of hot metal.

He did catch the odor of hot metal from the last shop before the market square.

The air smelled of oil, old tires, and hot metal.

And put the two halves together, then poured in some hot metal.

Her back felt like a bar of hot metal.

Holly turned her face back and stared up at the hot metal roof.

Has it occurred to you what the cold water might do to those hot metals?"

I felt the searing pain of hot metal entering my back.

Any hot metal could reignite a fire once it is shut off.

A lump of hot metal was buried deep in the sand.

"We'll wait long enough to lay hot metal against my wound.

It felt as if a rod of hot metal had been laid across his flesh.

Just the hot metal red from his narrow eyes that washed me with bloody light.

If the hot metal was burning into her backside, she didn't show it.

Into them he fed the hot metal, which finally was reduced to a thin sheet.

The hot metal killed some, crushed others, and maimed yet more.