sintered; sintering; sinters
: to cause to become a coherent mass by heating without melting
: to undergo sintering
sinter
noun
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That meant mixing a high-potency Super-LumiNova powder into the ceramic powder when the watch was sintered, the process of fusing together powders into a solid through high heat.
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Bloomberg, Mercury News, 27 May 2026
The supply chain runs mine to crusher to leaching tanks to solvent extraction columns to metal reduction furnaces to sintering presses — each a separate facility, a separate specialized workforce, a separate capital cycle.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 26 May 2026
Compared with standard catalysts that degrade or clump together through sintering at high temperatures, these multimetallic particles remained effective even after 12 hours at 900°C.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 7 May 2026
The researchers then fabricated prototype generators using spark plasma sintering, a method that rapidly compresses powdered materials into dense solid components using pulses of electric current.
—IEEE Spectrum, 23 Apr. 2026
The oxygen immediately bonds to the metal ions, forming semiconductor metal oxides that fuse together with one another in a sintering process to form wires.
—New Atlas, 3 Dec. 2024
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Bloomberg, Mercury News, 27 May 2026
The supply chain runs mine to crusher to leaching tanks to solvent extraction columns to metal reduction furnaces to sintering presses — each a separate facility, a separate specialized workforce, a separate capital cycle.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 26 May 2026
Compared with standard catalysts that degrade or clump together through sintering at high temperatures, these multimetallic particles remained effective even after 12 hours at 900°C.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 7 May 2026
The researchers then fabricated prototype generators using spark plasma sintering, a method that rapidly compresses powdered materials into dense solid components using pulses of electric current.
—IEEE Spectrum, 23 Apr. 2026
The oxygen immediately bonds to the metal ions, forming semiconductor metal oxides that fuse together with one another in a sintering process to form wires.
—New Atlas, 3 Dec. 2024
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sinter
transitive verb
sin·ter
ˈsint-ər 
: to cause to become a coherent mass by heating without melting
the binding of sintered hydroxyapatite with bone
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