sinter

plural sinters

1. geographyAn alluvial sediment deposited by a mineral spring.

   It has steaming lakes, pools, and streams, healing baths and springs, acidulous basins of emerald, opal, and orange, and tinted terraces of sinter.

   1913, David Paul Gooding, chapter V, in Picturesque New Zealand

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   That water at a high temperature can hold quartz in solution is well illustrated by the deposits of silicious sinter, thrown down by thermal springs, […]

   1883 June, John Magens Mello, “Quartz: its Varieties and Formation”, in Popular Science Monthly, volume 23

2. A mass formed by sintering.

   Consider a copper sinter material with spherical sinter particles in an early stage of the sintering process, see Fig. 3.5(a).

   2008, John Banhart, Advanced Tomographic Methods in Materials Research and Engineering, page 55

3. A mixture of iron ore and fluxes added to a blast furnace.

   A combination of fully and partly automatic working provides speed, efficiency and manpower economy in unloading coal, home ore, foreign ore and coke and concentrates from incoming wagons and loading outgoing wagons for despatch to the company's Ebbw works with export ore and sinter.

   1962 December, “Railways and the Spencer Steelworks”, in Modern Railways, page 410

present singular third person sinters · participle present sintering · participle past sintered · past sintered

1. To heat a compacted powder mass to form a hardened mass.

   Most, if not all, metals may be sintered.

   1980, “Advanced Automation for Space Missions: Appendix 4C”, in Proceedings of the 1980 NASA/ASEE Summer Study

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   A properly made, fully sintered and fully annealed metal clay piece should be able to stand up to any traditional metalsmithing technique.

   2010, Kate McKinnon, Sculptural Metal Clay Jewelry: Techniques and Explorations, Loveland, Colo.: Interweave Press, →ISBN, page 27