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babbitt metal
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babbitt metal, [From the inventor, Isaac Babbitt of Massachusetts.].
A soft white alloy of variable composition (as a nine parts of tin to one of copper, or of fifty parts of tin to five of antimony and one of copper) used in bearings to diminish friction. [1913 Webster]
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