smalt
[smawlt]
- a coloring agent made of blue glass produced by fusing silica, potassium carbonate, and cobalt oxide, used in powdered form to add color to vitreous materials.
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Historical Examples
The inferior kinds of smalt are occasionally adulterated with chalk.
Field's ChromatographyGeorge Field
This blue is distinguished from smalt by dissolving in acetic acid.
Field's ChromatographyGeorge Field
Ultimately the goods are mill-washed, blued with smalt and dried.
Zaffre is the roasted mineral ground with sand, while smalt, a term used more frequently, is the fused mixture with sand.
De Re MetallicaGeorgius Agricola
The smalt is usually composed of one part of calcined cobalt, fused with two parts of powder of flint and one of pot-ash.
smalt
- a type of silica glass coloured deep blue with cobalt oxide
- a pigment made by crushing this glass, used in colouring enamels
- the blue colour of this pigment
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Word Origin
C16: via French from Italian smalto, of Germanic origin; related to smelt 1
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