(v. i.) To solder with hard solder, esp. with an alloy of copper and zinc; as, to braze the seams of a copper pipe.
(v. i.) To harden.
(v. t.) To cover or ornament with brass.
Example Sentences:
(1) The bond strength of the specimens brazed with the non-precious alloy was largely unaffected.
(2) A total of 69 male subjects occupationally exposed to cadmium fumes in a factory producing silver-cadmium-copper alloys for brazing, were subjected to lung function tests, including ventilation (FVC and FEV1), residual volume (RV) and alveolar-capillary diffusion capacity (TLCO and KCO).
(3) Tensile strength, 0.2% proof stress, and percentage elongation of the welded bars were measured and compared with the corresponding values for the titanium bars as delivered and with those of brazed type-3 gold alloy bars of similar dimensions.
(4) Brazed specimens of a high-gold alloy were used as a reference.
(5) Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi for the Guardian Abdul El Saidi, 56, is Brompton’s brazing manager.
(6) A braze alloy is used to join the sections of the sample together and the resulting sample is stable during subsequent grinding, dimpling, and milling operations.
(7) A method for preparing cross-section transmission electron microscopy specimens from alumina and partially stabilized zirconia braze joints is described.
(8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Brazing in the Brompton factory.
(9) Get acquainted with archaic-sounding kitchen verbs: brewing, fermenting, brazing, curing.
(10) The action of local corrosion cells around the brazed joint is considered, and it is concluded that the two materials seem well suited for implant supraconstructions, provided that brazing the silver-palladium can be avoided.
(11) When I joined the company I used to get emails from all over the world from people saying, ‘I want to come and see the way you braze,’” the 54-year-old says.
(12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A workman brazes components of a folding bike in the Brompton Bicycle factory.
(13) However, the multi-component devices, which were joined with silver- and copper-based brazing alloys were more cytotoxic than the single-component devices.
(14) The amounts of metal released from the brazed arch bar were 140-600 times higher than those released from the solid arch bar.
(15) Addition of low melting temperature elements gallium and indium reduced flow temperature in some cases but produced brittleness in the brazing alloy.
(16) The braze training manager at Brompton Bicycle is one of a dying breed of craftsmen in Britain whoturn the copper scars knitting together the steel frame into things of beauty.
(17) The nature of the fracture in the brazed joint is described, and corrosion identified as the mechanism of degradation of the joint.
(18) The technique relies on masking a mechanically dimpled 3-mm disc in order to avoid preferential thinning of the metallic braze filler alloy during ion milling.
(19) The carbon composite and the silver-palladium per se did not corrode, whereas a silver-palladium specimen brazed with the recommended brazing alloy corroded unmistakably, yielding copper-containing corrosion products.
(20) It is recommended that appropriate grades of silver brazing alloy be used in the future, and that the mechanical integrity of medical devices joined with silver braze be regularly checked to anticipate failure in use.
Craze
Definition:
(v. t.) To break into pieces; to crush; to grind to powder. See Crase.
(v. t.) To weaken; to impair; to render decrepit.
(v. t.) To derange the intellect of; to render insane.
(v. i.) To be crazed, or to act or appear as one that is crazed; to rave; to become insane.
(v. i.) To crack, as the glazing of porcelain or pottery.
(n.) Craziness; insanity.
(n.) A strong habitual desire or fancy; a crotchet.
(n.) A temporary passion or infatuation, as for same new amusement, pursuit, or fashion; as, the bric-a-brac craze; the aesthetic craze.
Example Sentences:
(1) The coroner, Alan Craze, blamed poor communication and lack of organisation for the death of Lance Corporal Michael Pritchard, who was killed by a gunshot wound to the chest and abdomen in the "blue on blue" incident in Helmand province.
(2) But last week's trading statement from Unilever confirmed that, far from cashing in on the dieting craze, Slim Fast's sales have been shrinking faster than a weight watcher's waistline.
(3) A campaign involving children in Syrian villages has latched on to the Pokémon Go craze, asking gamers in the west to take a break from their frenzied hunt for digital creatures to turn their attention to young people trapped in war zones.
(4) Picture Detroit today and the images that probably come to mind are of " ruin porn " (the now infamous term for beautifully shot photos of dilapidated buildings); urban exploring (the new craze of creeping around abandoned complexes as seen in Jim Jarmusch's new film Only Lovers Left Alive ) and foreclosure frenzy (there are now nearly 80,000 empty homes to be torn down or fixed up in Motor City).
(5) ‘Twosie’ trend takes off Primark is backing the “twosie” as this year’s Christmas novelty hit in the UK, just as 2012’s craze the onesie has crossed the Channel in a late surge of popularity on the continent.
(6) The fashionable did not invent the craze for sunbathing, as we've been encouraged to believe.
(7) Sprawling across 110 hectares on the outskirts of Milan, this crazed collage of undulating tents, tilting green walls and parametrically-contorted lumps can mean only one thing: Expo 2015, latest in a long and controversial tradition of “world’s fairs”, has landed.
(8) Jimi Heselden, who latched on to an international craze for the upright, motorised "green commuter machines", was testing a cross-country version when he skidded into the river Wharfe which runs beside his Yorkshire estate.
(9) The tabloid conclusion is that the North's leaders are crazed – Kim Jong-un is a "deranged despot", the Sun wrote on Friday – while the Team America version is that they are idiotic.
(10) As the leader of the skiffle craze, he inspired the formation of literally thousands of do-it-yourself bands across the country, and was directly responsible for the 1960s pop explosion that - ironically - was to severely damage his own career.
(11) Knuckles, who is credited to have invented the house genre, begun his residency at the westside club in 1977 at the height of disco fever, but by 1980 a backlash had swept the craze away.
(12) Delivering his verdict after a week-long inquest, Craze said Pritchard's death was an accident, albeit an avoidable one.
(13) But there was a tonic for collective despair: from the decaying motor town of Coventry, 2 Tone Records promoted a "black and white, unite and fight" stance while launching a fashion, dance and musical craze that peaked with the 1981 summer of riots.
(14) He tried to capture its character – which he described as a “diabolical contraption, a dusty hunk of electric and mechanical hardware that reminded me of the disturbing 1950’s Quatermass science fiction television series” – in a near-lifesize two metre by three metre Portrait of a Dead Witch, which he also intended as a joke about the contemporary craze for computer-generated art.
(15) Their threat to sweep across continents like the armies of Muhammad, to stable their horses in the Vatican, are crazed delusions, we should not amplify them.
(16) The positive aspect is that far from being driven by a crazed, Hitler-like quest for European domination, the objectives of the Putin government appear to be both limited and rational: the protection of its regional security interests and great power status.
(17) Nowhere is the Sarah Brown craze more feverish than on the internet.
(18) #Bellfie by Matt Collins, managing director at Platypus Digital The big craze for 2015 will be the #bellfie.
(19) However, the larger apatite crystal size and loss of prismatic structure in crazed and cratered areas may partly explain previous observations of reduced rates of subsurface demineralization in lased enamel.
(20) "Obviously it doesn't fit into the paper cut-out picture of what a celebrity should look like," Cherry says, "and I think the whole scenario has become really crazed.