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    Lost-wax casting (redirect from Cire perdue)
    Lost-wax casting – also called investment casting, precision casting, or cire perdue (French: [siʁ pɛʁdy]; borrowed from French) – is the process by which...
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    cosmetics As a modelling material in the lost-wax casting process, or cire perdue For wax tablets used for a variety of writing purposes In encaustic paintings...
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    Macallan 64-year-old single malt whisky in a one-of-a-kind "Lalique: Cire Perdue" crystal decanter was sold for $460,000 at an auction at Sotheby's in...
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    El Vigilante (lit. transl. The Vigilant) is an outdoor cire perdue bronze sculpture installed along Mexican Federal Highway 85D ("México–Pachuca" Highway)...
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    created using the lost wax technique. It is known in artistic terms as "Cire Perdue". The Sanskrit Shilpa texts call it the Madhu Uchchishtta Vidhana. Beeswax...
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    which adds iron, lead and mercury to panchadhatu). Madhuchista Vidhana (cire perdue or lost wax) casting process is the most discussed process in these ancient...
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    model is removed from the mould. One method of forming a mould is by the Cire perdue or "lost wax" method. Using this method, a model can be made from wax...
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    are mostly in copper, and a few are in brass, typically cast by the cire-perdue (lost-wax casting) process. Nataraja is celebrated in 108 poses of Bharatanatyam...
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    particularly noted for the horn-shaped trumpet, which was made by the cire perdue, or lost wax, process. Copper used in the manufacture of bronze was mined...
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    a player's grace and virtuosity. Kulintang gongs are made using the cire perdue method, a lost-wax process used for casting the individual gongs. The...
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