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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None of the skimmings of contemporary gossip poured out in the two volumes deserves the least consideration, save such as reveal the fair writer's relations with other authors.
From The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood by Whicher, George Frisbie
These skimmings are also returned to the diffusion cells.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 633, February 18, 1888 by Various
The skimmings after it got to the syrup stage was builed down and made into maple sugar for the children.
From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Kentucky Narratives by Work Projects Administration
Her husband is dead, and I guess he led her a life of it when he was alive, and she's as poor as second skimmings.
From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904 by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)
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
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