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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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