SPELTER

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Impure zinc containing about three percent lead and other impurities (especially in the form of ingots)

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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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