Sinter

Quick meaning: Sinter is a noun meaning (geology) An alluvial sediment deposited by a mineral spring.

Meaning

(geology) An alluvial sediment deposited by a mineral spring.

More Meanings

1. A mass formed by sintering.
2. A mixture of iron ore and fluxes added to a blast furnace.
3. To heat a compacted powder mass to form a hardened mass.

Example Sentences

Most, if not all, metals may be sintered.

Consider a copper sinter material with spherical sinter particles in an early stage of the sintering process, see Fig. 3.5(a).

A properly made, fully sintered and fully annealed metal clay piece should be able to stand up to any traditional metalsmithing technique.

It has steaming lakes, pools, and streams, healing baths and springs, acidulous basins of emerald, opal, and orange, and tinted terraces of sinter.

Word Forms

• sinters
• sintering
• sintered

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include tephra, tuff, silicious, siliceous, calc, fluxing.

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