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HMS Glossary of Terms

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.

  • 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

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