spelter
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of spelter
1655–65; origin uncertain; akin to Middle Dutch speauter, German spiauter spelter
Example Sentences
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The temperature is gradually raised to a bright red heat, when the spelter will be observed to fuse or "run," as it is technically said to do.
From On Laboratory Arts by Threlfall, Richard
In the first place, spelter is merely rather soft brass, and consequently it often cannot be fused without endangering the rest of the work.
From On Laboratory Arts by Threlfall, Richard
Borax is the flux used, with silver solder as with spelter.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various
The alloy is composed of copper, tin, spelter, or zinc and lead, which metals are manipulated.
That Gilbert meant either spelter or pewter is pretty certain.
From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by Gilbert, William
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