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<p>[QUOTE="CamaroDMD, post: 2590969, member: 5233"]This is how it is used in dentistry as well. We burnish metal fillings to polish but also to condense the material further...resulting in a harder and more polished surface. I wonder if the mint truly burnished the planchets (in a metal working sense) or simply polished them...and then used a more appealing word.</p><p><br /></p><p>Online dictionaries however simply define the word to mean polished.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="CamaroDMD, post: 2590969, member: 5233"]This is how it is used in dentistry as well. We burnish metal fillings to polish but also to condense the material further...resulting in a harder and more polished surface. I wonder if the mint truly burnished the planchets (in a metal working sense) or simply polished them...and then used a more appealing word. Online dictionaries however simply define the word to mean polished.[/QUOTE]
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