Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The incomplete union into a solid mass of the particles of a powder heated so that softening but not perfect fusion occurs.
Wiktionary
Examples
“Researchers at the Univ. of Leicester, led by Professor Jingzhe Pan of the Department of Engineering, focused on a critical step in the manufacture of ceramics known as 'sintering'.”
“Ceramics are produced from firstly compacting powders into a solid, and then firing the powder compacts in a process called 'sintering'.”
“These are precision cast by injecting a powdered metal slurry into a mold, removing the binders, and then heating (sintering) the parts.”
Which is a better material for a knife, high carbon steel or stainless steel?
“The first human crew (three or four) gets there and sets up shop, first sintering a landing pad so that you don't have to land landers km away from the outpost.”
“The sintering means that the stones are compressed to a solid; barium titanate is also used in capacitors in electrical circuits, and in stone form as the heating element in hair straighteners.”
The Guardian: Inventor James Dyson launches heater that cannot burn you
“Mr. Koszo, who is Hungarian, learned of the sintering technology in an article published by the University of New South Wales, which helped him partner with scientists”
The Wall Street Journal: Vecor Recycles Waste From Coal Plants Into Building Materials
“German prosecutors also are investigating a separate allegation that Mr.S. and Mr.A. planned to ship a second vacuum sintering oven to Iran in 2008 via a shell company registered in an unnamed Asian country.”
The Wall Street Journal: Germany Charges Two Over Iran Equipment Deal
“A spokesman for the Iranian Embassy in Berlin, Heidar Zadeh, said the indictment is based on a misunderstanding, because the vacuum sintering oven was intended for use by an Iranian ceramics firm.”
The Wall Street Journal: Germany Charges Two Over Iran Equipment Deal
“The pair allegedly delivered a vacuum sintering oven to Iran in July 2007.”
The Wall Street Journal: Germany Charges Two Over Iran Equipment Deal
Lists
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INTA - GSP product categories
alkali metals, alkaline-earth me..., sodium, calcium, rare-earth metals, scandium, yttrium, intermixed, interalloyed, aluminium oxide, artificial corundum, ammonium sulphate and 99 more...
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Words That Mean Things
I found most of these words in books! That means they MUST be good.
flinders, periplus, palaver, midden, cadge, legerdemain, flense, lapidary, geas, bailey, susurration, satoris and 128 more...
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In The Colorhouse
A colorhouse - a manufactory of colors for tints, dyes, pigments, paints, glazes, &c. Terms associated with the science and history of colormaking.
All sorts of things went into color...colorhouse, Turkey red, dyebath, woad, ocher, lead white, mordant, Naples yellow, zaffer, kiln, vat, pot and 298 more...
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new acquisitions
found in the wild (i.e., not on Wordie!)
samara, indehiscent, paschal, rogation, wen, rete, diriment, epicene, duramen, euhemerism, objurgate, canaille and 429 more...
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Glassmaking terms
avolio, aeolipile, rhyton, came, acid etching, acid stamping, twist, air twist, annealing, at-the-fire, glory hole, glazier and 67 more...
Tweets
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bilby "Once you've compacted the snow on your own, let it sit. If you're constructing a simple wall to shield you as you fire snowballs, building it the day before the snowball war can help sintering, the process in which the crystals bond together."
- Andrew Moseman, Win Snowball Fights With Better Strategy and Snow Tech, popularmechanics.com, 24 Dec 2008. Feb 3, 2009
reesetee See frit. Nov 9, 2007