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  2. Tungsten - Wikipedia

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    Physical properties. In its raw form, tungsten is a hard steel-grey metal that is often brittle and hard to work. Purified, monocrystalline tungsten retains its hardness (which exceeds that of many steels), and becomes malleable enough that it can be worked easily. [ 18] It is worked by forging, drawing, or extruding but it is more commonly ...

  3. Kintsugi - Wikipedia

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    Kintsugi. Kintsugi (Japanese: 金継ぎ, lit. 'golden joinery'), also known as kintsukuroi (金繕い, "golden repair"), [ 1] is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with urushi lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum.

  4. Shakudō - Wikipedia

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    Shakudō. Unpatinated shakudō. Shakudō (赤銅) is a Japanese billon of gold and copper (typically 4–10% gold, 96–90% copper), one of the irogane class of colored metals, which can be treated to develop a black, or sometimes indigo, patina, resembling lacquer. Unpatinated shakudō visually resembles bronze; the dark color is induced by ...

  5. Inlay - Wikipedia

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    Inlay is commonly used in the production of decorative furniture, where pieces of colored wood, precious metals or even diamonds are inserted into the surface of the carcass using various matrices including clear coats and varnishes. Lutherie inlays are frequently used as decoration and marking on musical instruments, particularly the smaller ...

  6. Lost-wax casting - Wikipedia

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    Lost-wax casting is known as rōgata in Japanese, and dates back to the Yayoi period, c. 200 BC. [16] The most famous piece made by cire perdue is the bronze image of Buddha in the temple of the Todaiji monastery at Nara. [16] It was made in sections between 743 and 749, allegedly using seven tons of wax. [16]

  7. Fountain pen - Wikipedia

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    A fountain pen is a writing instrument that uses a metal nib to apply water-based ink, or special pigment ink—suitable for fountain pens—to paper. It is distinguished from earlier dip pens by using an internal reservoir to hold ink, eliminating the need to repeatedly dip the pen in an inkwell during use. The pen draws ink from the reservoir ...

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