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Definition of Matte up

1. Verb. Change texture so as to become matted and felt-like. "The fabric felted up after several washes"

Lexicographical Neighbors of Matte Up

Literary usage of Matte up

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1886)
"... to undergo fusion of the matte, treatment in the converter to bring the matte up to 72 per cent, of copper, and a second fusion, before they are treated ..."

2. The School of Mines Quarterly by Columbia University School of Chemistry (1891)
"If the changes made in the charge do not succeed in bring ing the matte up to the required standard, it is used in other charges. ..."

3. Report of the Royal Ontario Nickel Commission: With Appendix by Ontario Royal Nickel Commission, George Thomas Holloway (1917)
"They ran their matte up to about 20 or 30 per cent. But now they cannot get that stuff, and they cannot get the Greek ore; they have only what they had in ..."

4. A Treatise on Chemistry by Henry Enfield Roscoe, John Cannell Cain, Carl Schorlemmer (1913)
"The operations consist in charging the converter with the molten matte, blowing air to concentrate the matte up to white-metal, pouring off the slag, ..."

5. The Mineral Industry by Richard Pennefather Rothwell (1906)
"... grades of matte up to white metal consist of white metal united to an excess of ferrous sulphide, ..."

6. The School of Mines Quarterly by Columbia University School of Chemistry (1891)
"If the changes made in the charge do not succeed in bring ing the matte up to the required standard, it is used in other charges. ..."

7. Handbook of Metallurgy by Carl Schnabel (1907)
"In that case the roasting of this matte can be carried on in kilns in a similar way to the roasting of copper and lead matte. Up till now this method of ..."

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