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putty powder

noun

  1. an abrasive consisting chiefly of stannic oxide, used for polishing hard surfaces.


putty powder

noun

  1. a powder, either tin oxide or tin and lead oxide, used for polishing glassware, metal, etc
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of putty powder1

First recorded in 1825–35
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Example Sentences

The four Dillons, of Ballyhaunis, gave out to their grooms a large assortment of pipe-clay and putty-powder.

There is a finishing process of polishing with putty powder.

For example, one part by weight of tin becomes, on calcining, 1.271 parts of oxide (putty powder).

A dry leather should then remove the oil, and a polish should afterwards be given with putty powder on a dry clean leather.

Polishing is effected by wooden wheels fed with wet pumice-powder and rottenstone and by brushes fed with moistened putty-powder.

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