sinters in English
verb
1
make (a powdered material) coalesce into a solid or porous mass by heating it (and usually also compressing it) without liquefaction.
To create actual products from the trimmings, manufacturers would pulverize them and then sinter the resulting powder into parts, a process that would preserve the nanocrystalline structure.
noun
1
a hard siliceous or calcareous deposit precipitated from mineral springs.
The spring pool has a rim of grey siliceous sinter up to 2 m wide and 0.5m high.
2
solid material that has been sintered, especially a mixture of iron ore and other materials prepared for smelting.
For decades, steelmakers have used highly polluting ovens to turn powdery coal and iron ore into chunks called coke and sinter , which are melted with superheated air to make iron.
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1. Nickel mattes, nickel oxide sinters and other intermediate products of nickel metallurgy; unwrought nickel; nickel waste and scrap
2. A laser beam sinters (melts) the gold flour locally in an extremely small point, and any shape may be ‘drawn’ precisely with the laser beam, in three dimensions.
3. Those sinters are formed of opal-A that replaced microbes, opal-A precipitated as cement, accessory minerals (e.g., kaolinite, jarosite, calcite), biological detritus (e.g., leaves, wood, pollen grains), and lithic detritus.