Re: Way,WAY off topic diatribe -was : Paying to present

[John Barrer <forcejb@YAHOO.COM>]

I believe that the oxides and other impurities that
float/form on the surface of molten solder in a
wave-soldering machine are called dross. Maybe there's
a more general definition?
John Barrere

--- Hugh Haskell <hhaskell@MINDSPRING.COM> wrote:
> At 14:55 -0800 3/6/04, Bernard Cleyet wrote:
> > There's a word for this metaphor, which I've
> forgotten.
> > [You meant dregs?]
> I always thought "dross" meant something like
> "talings" (sp?--I can't
> find that in my inadequate desk dictionary)--the
> stuff left over
> after the important ore is separated from the rest
> of the junk at a
> mine. Dregs isn't exactly what I had in mind.
>
> If I'm using a word whose meaning I think I know, I
> usually don't
> look it up. Sometimes I an caught in a memory lapse.
> This may be one
> of those times.
>
> Hugh
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