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 heating may be interrupted when the spelter is observed to have melted into a continuous mass.
From On Laboratory Arts by Threlfall, Richard
For brazed joints, spelter or powdered brass is employed, and the flux is usually borax.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various
In making the truck and tender wheels of these early locomotives, the hubs were cast in three pieces and afterward banded with wrought-iron, the interstices being filled with spelter.
From Illustrated Catalogue of Locomotives Baldwin Locomotive Works by Baird, Matthew
Drugs, pepper, coffee, tea, other sugars, indigo, cochineal, copper, and spelter, 7000 loads.
From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)
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
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