sinteringn.
/ˈsɪntəɪŋ/ The process or action of the verb; spec. as applied to iron ore (see sinter n. 3). Frequently attributive.
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society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > [noun] > extraction from ore > smelting > part of process
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1873 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1871–3 1 225 In reference to Western coals we cannot talk about the sintering or fusion of carbon.
1907 Trans. Inst. Mining & Metall. 16 314 These..difficulties are overcome by the use of the sintering process, as the loss is small owing to the ore being wet.
1914 Iron Trade Rev. 55 292 (heading) Sintering plant at Pottstown.
1930 Engineering 16 May 650/2 Sintering occurs when charges of partially reduced ores are maintained for considerable periods at temperatures above 750 deg. C.
1958 N. Levine Canada made Me ii. 78 Above us a steel cable carried large buckets of iron ore from the Mine to the Sinter Plant.
1958 A. D. Merriman Dict. Metall. 323/2 Sinter, a term used in reference to the solid waste from smelting or refining operations. It is also used to denote a product of a sintering operation.
1977 Western Mail (Cardiff) 5 Mar. 6/1 South Wales exports about one million tons a year, much of it anthracite duff used in briquetting and sintering in steel production.
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