pakfong

English

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -ɒŋ

Noun

pakfong (countable and uncountable, plural pakfongs)

Archaic form of paktong.
- 1824, Philosophical Magazine, page 128:
  Engestroem [...] says, in the Stockholm Transactions, "that the Chinese white copper or pakfong consists of copper, nickel zinc, in the proportions of 5 : 7 : 7." This pakfong bears a considerable price in China, [...]
- 1855, American Journal of Dental Science, page 353:
  Dumas gives the following view of the compositions of different pakfongs.

References

“pakfong”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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