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SPELTER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does spelter mean?
• SPELTER (noun)
The noun SPELTER has 1 sense:
1. impure zinc containing about three percent lead and other impurities (especially in the form of ingots)
Familiarity information: SPELTER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Impure zinc containing about three percent lead and other impurities (especially in the form of ingots)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Hypernyms ("spelter" is a kind of...):
atomic number 30; zinc; Zn (a bluish-white lustrous metallic element; brittle at ordinary temperatures but malleable when heated; used in a wide variety of alloys and in galvanizing iron; it occurs naturally as zinc sulphide in zinc blende)
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