emery wheel
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Asked how the emery wheel business was now, the General admitted: "Not so good."
From Time Magazine Archive
His energy was abrasive, and where it touched the world, it threw off hot, stinging little sparks like an emery wheel.
From Time Magazine Archive
Under an emery wheel it sent off a shower of hot, brilliant sparks; an acetylene torch wouldn't melt it.
From Time Magazine Archive
Foote, a mineralogist, when cutting a section of this meteorite, found the tools injured by something vastly harder than metallic iron, and an emery wheel used for grinding it was ruined.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" by Various
An excellent material for removing the glaze from an emery wheel is a piece of ordinary pumice stone.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua
