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Definition of Skimmings
1. skimming [n] - See also: skimming
Lexicographical Neighbors of Skimmings
Literary usage of Skimmings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Metallurgy of Lead & Silver by Henry Francis. Collins (1899)
"The ordinary bye-products of the softening furnace are two—viz., copper dross
and antimony skimmings; sometimes, as at Freiberg, a third intermediate ..."
2. The Metallurgy of Lead & Silver by Henry Francis Collins (1899)
"The ordinary bye-products of the softening furnace are two—viz., copper dross
and antimony skimmings; sometimes, as at Freiberg, a third intermediate ..."
3. Ore Dressing by Robert Hallowell Richards (1906)
"Top skimmings to waste; middle skimmings returned to jig; ... The jig yields
besides this, top skimmings sent to the platform to be recleaned for blende; ..."
4. Ore Dressing by Robert Hallowell Richards (1906)
"Top skimmings to waste; middle skimmings returned to jig; ... The jig yields
besides this, top skimmings sent to the platform to be recleaned for blende; ..."
5. The Metallurgy of Lead and the Desilverization of Base Bullion by Heinrich Oscar Hofman (1899)
"SOFTENING FURNACE DROSS AND Skimmings.—According to one method of working, ...
different construction from the one used to treat the antimony skimmings, ..."
6. Ore Dressing: In Four Volumes & Index by Robert Hallowell Richards (1903)
"Top skimmings to waste; middle skimmings returned to jig; bottom skimmings to (5)
... The jig yields besides this, top skimmings sent to the platform to be ..."
7. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1900)
"Skimmings FROM "THE DAIRY OF GEORGE IV." CHARLES YELLOWPLUSH, ESQ., TO OLIVER
YORKE, ESQ.* EAR WHY,—Takin advantage of the ..."
8. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1898)
"Skimmings FROM "THE DAIRY OF GEORGE IV." CHARLES YELLOWPLUSH, ESQ., TO OLIVER
YORKE, ESQ.* DEAR WHY,—Takin advantage of the dismiss holydays, ..."
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