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Metal leaf, also called composition leaf or schlagmetal, is a thin foil used for decoration. Metal leaf can come in many different shades. Some metal leaf may look like gold leaf but does not contain any real gold. This metal leaf is often referred to as imitation leaf.
Metal leaf is usually made of gold (including many alloys), silver, copper, aluminium, brass (sometimes called " Dutch metal" typically 85% Copper and 15% zinc) or palladium, sometimes also platinum.
Vark is a type of silver leaf used for decoration in Indian cuisine.
Goldbeating, the technique of producing metal leaf, has been known for more than 5,000 years.
Usage examples of "metal leaf".
And the coach was well sprung, on good metal leaf springs, with the new vulcanized rubber tires.
A thin little metal leaf, like a spring, was supposed to be activated by the demand and bend over and touch a terminal.
Sunk into the cover and picked out in stained metal leaf was the author’.
On one side of the throne was a sun, on the other a moon, both set on tripods and cut out of cardboard on some plastic material, crudely executed, covered with tinfoil or some metal leaf, gold and silver, of course, but effective, because each luminary spun, set in motion by the flames of a brazier.
Witnesses remarked that in the gentleness of its descent it was like a giant metal leaf.