Meaning of Bower-Barff | Babel Free

Definitions

To subject (metal) to the Bower-Barff process for reducing corrosion.

transitive

Examples

“It will no doubt be obvious that the cost of oxidizing by the Bower or Barff process — or, to use a more abbreviated expression, Bower-Barffing — varies considerably; for example, one thousand small articles may be treated at the same time, and in the same cubical space, that might be occupied by a single large article; […]”

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