English Dictionary

limaille

noun

(metallurgy) A shiny substance that floats on the surface of liquid metal as it issues from the smelting furnace, indicating that the metal is saturated with carbon.

I found some limaille on the floor.

意味（1）

(metallurgy) A shiny substance that floats on the surface of liquid metal as it issues from the smelting furnace, indicating that the metal is saturated with carbon.

意味（2）

(dentistry, obsolete) Bits of waste metal mixed with bone, dust, etc.; lemel.

This absence of blood, which was in accordance with the external phenomena, led to the disuse of mercury, and to the substitution of the internal use of iron, ( limaille porphyrisée, ) in the dose of a “gros" daily, under the form of opiate, with tonics.