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Webster 1913 Edition

Sinter

Sin′ter

,
Noun.
[G. Cf.
Cinder
.]
(Min.)
Dross, as of iron; the scale which files from iron when hammered; – applied as a name to various minerals.
Calcareous sinter
,
a loose banded variety of calcite formed by deposition from lime-bearing waters; calcareous tufa; travertine.
–
Ceraunian sinter
,
fulgurite.
–
Siliceous sinter
,
a light cellular or fibrous opal; especially, geyserite (see
Geyserite
). It has often a pearly luster, and is then called pearl sinter.

Webster 1828 Edition

Sinter

SIN'TER

,
Noun.
In mineralogy, calcarious sinter is a variety of carbonate of lime, composed of a series of successive layers, concentric, plane or undulated, and nearly or quite parallel. It appears under various forms. Silicious sinter is white or grayish, light, brittle, porous,, and of a fibrous texture. Opaline silicious sinter somewhat resembles opal. It is whitish, with brownish, blackish or bluish spots, and its fragments present dendritic appearances. Pearl sinter or fiorite occurs in stalactitic, cylindrical, botryoidal, and globular masses, white or grayish.

Definition 2024

Sinter

Sinter

See also: sinter and šinter

German

Noun

Sinter m ‎(genitive Sinters, plural Sinter)

  1. (geology, metallurgy) sinter

sinter

sinter

See also: Sinter and šinter

English

Noun

sinter ‎(plural sinters)

  1. (geology) An alluvial sediment deposited by a mineral spring.
    • 1883 June, John Magens Mello, Quartz: its Varieties and Formation, in Popular Science Monthly, Volume 23,
      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, […]
    • 1913, David Paul Gooding, Picturesque New Zealand, Chapter V,
      It has steaming lakes, pools, and streams, healing baths and springs, acidulous basins of emerald, opal, and orange, and tinted terraces of sinter.
  2. A mass formed by sintering.
    • 2008, John Banhart, Advanced Tomographic Methods in Materials Research and Engineering, page 55,
      Consider a copper sinter material with spherical sinter particles in an early stage of the sintering process, see Fig. 3.5(a).
  3. A mixture of iron ore and fluxes added to a blast furnace.

Verb

sinter ‎(third-person singular simple present sinters, present participle sintering, simple past and past participle sintered)

  1. To compact and heat a powder to form a solid mass.
    • 1980, Advanced Automation for Space Missions: Appendix 4C, in Proceedings of the 1980 NASA/ASEE Summer Study,
      Most, if not all, metals may be sintered.
    • 2010, Kate McKinnon, Sculptural Metal Clay Jewelry: Techniques and Explorations, Loveland, Colo.: Interweave Press, ISBN 978-1-59668-174-3, page 27:
      A properly made, fully sintered and fully annealed metal clay piece should be able to stand up to any traditional metalsmithing technique.

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Verb

sinter

  1. First-person singular present of sintern.
  2. Imperative singular of sintern.

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *sindrą, *sindraz, *sendraz ‎(“dross, cinder, slag”), from Proto-Indo-European *sendʰro- ‎(“coagulating fluid, liquid slag, scale, cinder”); related to Scots sinder ‎(“ember, cinder”), West Frisian sindel, sintel ‎(“cinder, slag”), Dutch sintel ‎(“cinder, ember, slag”), Middle Low German sinder, sinter ‎(“cinder, slag”), Danish sinder ‎(“spark of ignited iron, cinder”), Swedish sinder ‎(“slag or dross from a forge”), Icelandic sindur ‎(“scoring”), Old Church Slavonic сядра ‎(sjadra, “lime cinder, gypsum”).

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