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Definition of Spelter
1. Noun. Impure zinc containing about three percent lead and other impurities (especially in the form of ingots).
Definition of Spelter
1. n. Zinc; -- especially so called in commerce and arts.
Definition of Spelter
1. Noun. Zinc, often in blocks or ingot form. ¹
2. Noun. (uncountable countable) Zinc alloyed with another metal (especially copper), used as a solder. ¹
3. Noun. An objet d'art made from zinc. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Spelter
1. zinc in the form of ingots [n -S]
Medical Definition of Spelter
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Spelter
Literary usage of Spelter
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual Report by Missouri Division of Mine Inspection, Missouri Bureau of Mines (1900)
"Here Missouri for the year 1897, is credited with the production of 18125 tons
of spelter, when in fact the zinc ore of the state in that identical year ..."
2. The American Year Book: A Record of Events and Progress by Francis Graham Wickware, (, Albert Bushnell Hart, (, Simon Newton Dexter North (1916)
"The high prices paid for spelter represented a premium upon the use of smelting
... The phenomenal price for spelter paralyzed the consumption of zinc for ..."
3. The Mineral Industry by Richard Pennefather Rothwell (1906)
"The ordinary brands of Western spelter that are now on the market consist ...
spelter made from Colorado ore need not con tain more than about one per cent, ..."
4. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge edited by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"The New Jersey zinc company, having mines near Franklin, NJ, both of calamine
and of red zinc ore, manufactures at its works in Newark oxide, spelter, ..."
5. The Zinc Industry by Ernest Alfred Smith (1918)
"The main market or basing point for spelter is St. Louis, Missouri, ... However,
the large consumption of spelter is at places between St. Louis and New ..."
6. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"The first refined spelter produced in this country was made in the year 1856, at
Bethlehem, Pa., from ores mined there, and it was sent to the government ..."
7. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"The first refined spelter produced in this country was made in the year 1856,
... Up to 1865 or 1866 the spelter used by brass manufacturers was imported ..."
8. Mineral Resources of Virginia by Thomas Leonard Watson, Ray Smith Bassler, Heinrich Ries, Roy Jay Holden, Virginia Jamestown Exposition Commission (1907)
"spelter. The high grade spelter made by the Bertha Mineral Company, ... Three grades
of spelter are made, branded according to purity: "Bertha Pure spelter ..."
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