Paktong

Synonyms for "paktong" (11 found)

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Related words (5)

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Translations

22 translations across 10 languages.

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Arabic

4 entries
  • تُوتِيَاء مَعْدِنِيَّة noun (alloy)
  • تُوتِيَاء مَعْدِنِيّ noun (alloy)
  • خَارَصِين noun (alloy)
  • رُوح تُوتِيَاء noun (alloy)

Chinese Mandarin

1 entries
  • 白銅 /白铜 noun (alloy)

Finnish

1 entries
  • paktong noun (alloy)

French

4 entries
  • cuivre blanc des Chinois noun (alloy)
  • pacfong noun (alloy)
  • pacfung noun (alloy)
  • packfong noun (alloy)

German

4 entries
  • Packfong noun (alloy)
  • Packtong noun (alloy)
  • Pakfong noun (alloy)
  • Paktong noun (alloy)

Korean

1 entries
  • 백동 noun (alloy)

Ottoman Turkish

1 entries
  • فاقفون noun (alloy)

Persian

1 entries
  • خارچینی noun (alloy)

Swedish

1 entries
  • nysilver noun (alloy)

Turkish

1 entries
  • fakfon noun (alloy)

Sample sentences

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Chinese export metalwork consists almost entirely of three categories: silverware; pewterware; and paktong, an alloy of zinc, copper and nickel, closely resembling silver, which the Chinese also described as tutenague, and which was probably worked by white metalsmiths also making pewter.

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Many German-silver paktongs were soon flourishing under a variety of trade names, […]

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From the surviving descriptions it seems likely that during the later eighteenth century most paktong items were sold (in England at least) misleadingly under the name tutenag.

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