On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Sally or Dick Taylor wrote:
> Don---I'm not sure about this, but I think that sintering is the
> metalurgical process of blending materials, such as bronze with others,
> such as silica.
>
> Dick
from Webster:
sinter \'sin-t(*-)rin\ vt or sin.ter.ing : to cause to become a coherent
nonpporous mass by heating without melting
So it does indeed describe the process of making the metal.
I just thought I'd toss that out there.
rml
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