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Originally Posted by Three Muses Glass View Post
Or it could mean fuming. You'd put a small piece of silver (or a couple sheets of silver foil) on a piece of boro (usually) and put that in the flame while holding the thing to be fumed farther out in the flame. But it doesn't melt onto the bead/thing...it deposits the silver fume on to it.

ps- you need excellent ventilation for this process.
That sounds more like the description, good catch!
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