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Sintering

To compact and heat a powder to form a solid mass.

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verb

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To compact and heat a powder to form a solid mass.

noun

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A process in which the particles of a powder are welded together by pressure and heating to a temperature below its melting point

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frittingnoun	The formation of frit or slag by heat with only incipient fusion.
cokenoun	(uncountable) Solid residue from roasting coal in a coke oven; used principally as a fuel and in the production of steel and formerly as a domestic fuel.
conurbationnoun	A continuous aggregation of built-up urban communities created as a result of urban sprawl.
agglomerationnoun	State of being collected in a mass; a mass; cluster.
pressureless	Without pressure or the use of pressure.
cofiringnoun	The combustion of two or more fuels at the same time
weldingnoun	The joining two materials (especially two metals) together by applying heat, pressure and filler, either separately or in any combination.
solderingnoun	A method of joining two metallic surfaces by melting an alloy between them.
meltingnoun	The process of changing the state of a substance from solid to liquid by heating it past its melting point.
annealingnoun	The heating of solid metal or glass to high temperatures and cooling it slowly so that its particles arrange into a defined lattice to remove residual stress.
solutionizationnoun	The act of solutionizing; the process of converting a metal alloy into a solid solution by a heat treatment.
superformingnoun	A hot metal forming process that uses similar principles to thermoforming plastics, where a sheet of material is heated and forced onto a male or female superform using air pressure.
spelteringnoun	A process which directly combines copper and metallic zinc to form an alloy.
brazingnoun	A method of joining metals by using heat and a filler
zone meltingnoun	(physics, chemistry) A technique used to purify a metal, semiconductor or other solid in which a heating system slowly causes a series of molten zones to traverse the solid, leaving purer material behind it.
butt fusionnoun	A technique for joining pipes by heating the pipe ends and then fusing them through pressure.
steelificationnoun	The process of becoming steel, or an instance of this.
stick weldingnoun	A method of manual electric welding that uses a consumable flux-covered electrode that forms a slag to protect the weld from oxygen degradation.
granulationnoun	The formation of granules, or of cereal grains.
thermoweldingnoun	welding by the application of heat; the weld so formed