solder
Other forms: soldered; soldering; solders
If you want to be a metalsmith you’ll have to become familiar with solder, which is the substance you use to fuse two metal surfaces.
The word solder traces back to the Latin word solidare, meaning “to make solid.” That’s what you use solder for: to make something solid. In this case you are joining two metal surfaces so they appear as one solid piece. The word also has a verb form, also solder, to describe the act of joining the metal pieces. You might use solder, for example, to solder a metal piece on a computer's motherboard.
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join or fuse with solder“solder these two pipes together”types:dip soldersolder by immersion in a bath of molten soldersoft-solderrepair with soft-solderbrazesolder together by using hard solder with a high melting point
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an alloy (usually of lead and tin) used when melted to join two metal surfacestypes:hard soldersolder that contains copper; melts at a relatively high temperature; used for brazingsilver soldera solder that contains silversoft soldersolder that melts at a relatively low temperature
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