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  • noun A welding technique producing good electrical conducting welds by using a highly exothermic thermite reaction between copper oxide and a metal such as aluminium, which results in pure copper being deposited in the weld.

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Perhaps Blend of Cadwell and welding, after Dr. Charles Cadwell.

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