noun. A chemical sediment or crust, as of porous silica, deposited by a mineral spring.

noun. A mass formed by sintering.

intransitive verb. To cause (metallic powder, for example) to form a coherent mass by heating without melting.

intransitive verb. To form a coherent mass by heating without melting.

noun. Silicious or calcareous matter deposited by springs.

noun. An obsolete form of center.

To compact or become compacted together by partial fusion, so as to resemble sinter. See sintering.

noun. Dross, as of iron; the scale which files from iron when hammered; -- applied as a name to various minerals.

noun. a loose banded variety of calcite formed by deposition from lime-bearing waters; calcareous tufa; travertine.

noun. fulgurite.

noun. a light cellular or fibrous opal; especially, geyserite (see Geyserite). It has often a pearly luster, and is then called pearl sinter.

noun. An alluvial sediment deposited by a mineral spring.

noun. A mass formed by sintering.

noun. A mixture of iron ore and fluxes added to a blast furnace.

verb. To compact and heat a powder to form a solid mass.

verb. cause (ores or powdery metals) to become a coherent mass by heating without melting

"Where, however, the temperature is high, some part of the deposit, even a little gold, may be laid down just about the spring in the deposits known as sinter, which are often formed at such places."

ceraunien sinter  

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