core-bar

Updated: May 7, 2025

For charging the retort, the water-tank is placed on a trolly; and standing upright on a stool inside the tank is placed the piña, or conical mass of silver amalgam, which is held together by being built up on a core-bar fitted with a series of horizontal disks.

Various - Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884