Meaning of similored | Babel Free

Definitions

Coated with similor (an alloy of copper and brass resembling gold).

not-comparable, obsolete, rare

Examples

“Beware of Imposition—Gilt and Similored Articles may be procured at less than half the above-named Prices.”

“On the application, however, of this amalgam to the surfaces of either gilding metal, copper, brazen, or similored articles, it is found that as there is no chemical affinity, and consequently no principle of mutual cohesion between the substances thus brought into contact, the direct union of them is impossible. […] [Y]ellow similored goods must only have the mereury fairly removed from them. […] Similored articles are the best adapted to show the extent over which the metal can be spread, since the brass amalgam seems to have a more powerful affinity for the amalgam of gold.”

“It may be spread by the process above described more thinly upon brass than copper; surfaces of brass, when gilded, are said to be similored, and upon these a grain of gold is commonly made to cover about 40 square inches”

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