Metal utensils contract tumah and become tahor [when] broken; [these are] the words of R’ Eliezer. R’ Yehoshua says: They only become tahor [when] intact. How so? [If] one sprinkled upon [the metal utensils], [and] they broke on that same day, [and] he refashioned them and then sprinkled upon them a second time that day, they are tahor; [these are] the words of R’ Eliezer. R’ Yehoshua says: No sprinkling [may be done] before the third and seventh [day].