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A mold is a hollow shape which can be filled with a liquid which can harden or set and take the shape of the mold.
File:Napfkuchen-Form.jpgBundt-style silicone and metal pans (2008)File:Antique food molds.jpgLate 19th- and early 20th-century food molds
Molds are used in cooking for jelly and cakes.
File:Bronze spearhead mold.JPGOne half of a bronze mold for casting a socketed spear head dated to the period 1400-1000 BC. There are no known parallels for this mold.
File:Bronze Age spear tip mould IMG 5123.jpgStone mold of the Bronze Age used to produce spear tips.
File:3310 - Athens - Stoà of Attalus Museum - Mould - Photo by Giovanni Dall'Orto, Nov 9 2009.jpgAncient Greek molds, used to mass-produce clay figurines, 5th/4th century BC. Beside them, the modern casts taken from them. On display in the Ancient Agora Museum in Athens, housed in the Stoa of Attalus.
File:Wooden Moulds (used for jaggery & sweets).JPGAncient wooden molds used for jaggery & sweets, archaeological museum in Jaffna, Sri Lanka.
They are also used in manufacturing, sometimes for very complex things.
See also mould
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