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See also:PASTE (O. Fr. paste, See also:modern pate, See also:Late See also:Lat. pasta, whence also in Span., See also:Port. and Ital., from Gr. 1r&vrrl or 1raara, See also:barley See also:porridge, or salted pottage, ir&ao'ety, to sprinkle with See also:salt)
, a mixture or See also:composition of a soft plastic consistency
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The See also:term is applied to substances used for various purposes, as e.g. in See also:cookery, a mixture of See also:flour and See also:water with See also:lard, See also:butter or See also:suet, for making pies and pastry, or of flour and water boiled, to which See also:starch or other ingredients to prevent souring are added, forming an adhesive for the affixing of See also:wall-See also:paper, See also:bill-posting and other purposes
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In technical See also:language, the term is also applied to the prepared See also:clay which forms the See also:body in the manufacture of pottery and See also:porcelain (see See also:CERAMICS) and to- the specially prepared See also:glass, known also as " strass," from which See also:imitation gems are manufactured
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This latter must be the purest, most transparent and most highly refractive glass that can be prepared
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These qualities are comprised in the highest degree in a See also:flint glass of unusual See also:density from the large percentage of See also:lead it contains
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Among various mixtures regarded as suitable for strass the following is an example: powdered See also:quartz 300 parts, red lead 470, potash (purified by See also:alcohol) 163, See also:borax 22, and See also: |
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