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investment casting
noun
, Metallurgy.
- a casting process in which an expendable pattern is surrounded by an investment compound and then baked so that the investment is hardened to form a mold and the pattern material may be melted and run off.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of investment casting1
First recorded in 1945–50
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