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Wollaston wire

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noun

  1. extremely fine wire formed by a process Wollaston process in which the metal, drawn as an ordinary wire, is encased in another metal and the two drawn together, after which the outer metal is stripped off or dissolved.

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Origin of Wollaston wire

wollastonite

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About 1810, he invented a technique for producing platinum wire as fine as a few millionths of an inch in diameter, that has since been known as “Wollaston wire.”

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