skimmings
Britishplural noun
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material that is skimmed off a liquid
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the froth containing concentrated ore removed during a flotation process
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slag, scum, or impurities removed from molten metals
Example Sentences
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Mr. Alcott's little diary gives us some of the best skimmings of that time of yeast.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 by Various
Its acrobatic Exertions, leaps—they pall upon my sense; Its bright mirage can satisfy no soul— Light skimmings from the surface fair of things.
From Essays on Scandinavian Literature by Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjorth
The lead from liquation would contain 2% to 3% of copper, and this would be largely recovered in these skimmings, although there would be some copper in the furnace bottoms—hearth-lead—and the litharge.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius
Compound Crepe, No. 1.—In this it is proposed to include cup-coagulated lumps, coagulated lumps from transport vessels, skimmings, bucket rinsings, cup-washings, and tree-scrap.
From The Preparation of Plantation Rubber by Morgan, Sidney
The coppery skimmings from the cupellation furnace are referred to again in Note 28, p.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius
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