The Historical Metallurgy Society offers a glossary of useful words related to the subject. More terms can be added to the glossary as necessary, so please email the web team here to enquire.
HMS Glossary of Terms
- Accelerator radiocarbon dating
- Archaeometallurgy
- Annealing
- Bloomery
- Brass
- Brazing
- Burnishing
- Carburisation
- Cassiterite
- Cast iron
- Charge
- Chasing
- Chiselling
- Co-fusion
- Consolidation
- Crucible
- Crucible steel
- Etching
- Fining
- Flux
- Forging
- Fuel
- Incising
- Inlaying
- Metallographic analysis
- Overlaying
- Pattern-welding
- Piercing
- Piling
- Plain iron
- Punching
- Quenching
- Rivets
- Slag
- Smelting
- Solder
- Steel
- Tempering
- Tinning
- Wrought iron