aluminiumware

English

Noun

aluminiumware (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of aluminumware.
    • 1909 April 13, “Arrivals and Departures”, in The Sun, volume CXLIV, number 148, Baltimore, Md., page 12, column 7:
      German Steamer Hannover, from Bremen — 107 cases toys, 84 cases hosiery, 18 cases linens, 72 cases crockery, 6 cases metalware, 1,000 bags rice, 8 cases albums, 100 sacks beans, 100 bags coffee, 3 cases chromos, 2 cases hollowglass, 2 cases brushes, 9 cases paper toys, 4 cases linens, 5 cases Bohemian glassware, 2,000 bags granulated rice, 205 cases and 181 casks earth, 3 cases hardware, 1 case fine ironware, 1 case aluminiumware, []
    • 1910 November 25, The Vancouver Daily Province, Vancouver, B.C., page 17:
      Aluminiumware at Graniteware Prices / We tested the market for aluminiumware some time ago.
    • 1998, Ben Selinger, Chemistry in the Marketplace, 5th edition, Harcourt Brace & Company, →ISBN, page 60:
      Chlorine-containing powders can cause deterioration of plastic kitchenware, but without chlorine the tannin stains from tea are not removed. Aluminiumware is also attacked quite strongly; therefore your saucepans are probably losing weight at an appreciable rate. Corrosion inhibitors, consisting of aluminium salts, are added to protect aluminium components — a case of shifting the equilibrium back again!
    • 2004, Juliet Gardiner, “Spitfire Summer”, in Wartime: Britain 1939–1945, Headline Book Publishing, →ISBN, page 265:
      Families generously handed over essential household items they would bitterly regret losing when it became impossible to replace them; there was still plenty of new aluminiumware in the shops that could have been requisitioned, and most scrap dealers had piles of it lying around.
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