lost-wax process


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lost-wax process

[′lȯst¦waks ‚prä·səs]
(metallurgy)
A method used in investment casting in which a wax pattern between a two-layered mold is removed by melting and replaced with molten metal; used for casting bronze statues and in jewelry casting. Also known as investment process.
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This sensitive sculpture was cast in bronze, most likely using the lost-wax process.
Sculpture: Miniature Beauty
Kirwin proposes that Leonardo intended to cast the great horse not by means of the lost-wax process but in the way in which cannon were cast, and also that the total height of the horse may have been not 7.
Leonardo da Vinci's Sforza Monument Horse: The Art and the Engineering

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