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Spelter works at Tindale, Cumbria Spelter commemorative medal of Queen Victoria (1887) Spelter is a zinc–lead alloy that ages to resemble bronze, but is softer and has a lower melting point. The name can also refer to a copper–zinc alloy (a brass) used for brazing, or to pure zinc.
Spelter is a census-designated place (CDP) in Harrison County, West Virginia, United States. Spelter is 4.5 miles (7.2 km) north of Clarksburg. Spelter has a post office with ZIP code 26438. [4] As of the 2010 census, its population was 346. [2] An early variant name was Ziesing. [5]
Spelter City is a populated place within the city of Henryetta, Oklahoma. [1] [2] It is located northeast of Henryetta’s town center, and west of Dewar, Oklahoma.[3]The area was originally a separate platted addition formally called the Henryetta Townsite Company, but which Henryetta annexed in 1916.
The previous Bursar, Spelter, was killed trying to save the library from destruction in Sourcery. Dinwiddie expected a relatively safe office to hold since nobody else actually wanted to be bursar and dreamed of spending the rest of his life quietly adding up rows of figures.
The zinc importers and traders. When he started his experimentations, spelter sold at £260 per ton. By 1750, this had reduced to £48, resulting in a loss to the traders who were trying to force Champion out of business. [3]
Pewter was first used around the beginning of the Bronze Age in the Near East.The earliest known piece of pewter was found in an Egyptian tomb, c. 1450 BC, [5] but it is unlikely that this was the first use of the material.
Spelter is an ore of zinc; it was mined in Cornwall and brought to the area for smelting. The locality of the works became known as Spelter, and the name appears on present-day maps. In 1839 Allen and his partners established another iron company, the Cambrian Iron Works (later known as the Llynvi Iron Works), in Maesteg.
During World War I, the Ministry of Munitions built a filling factory for artillery shells on the site, which was farmland commandeered by the military for its closeness to Avonmouth docks and to the site of the National Spelter Company's chemical works (Spelter being zinc or a zinc alloy) in St Andrew's Road, Avonmouth, later the National Smelting Company.