sinter

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The works technical manager for the coke, sinter and iron department added: "Working in this industry, the scale of it is absolutely huge. It is still very impressive every time I go in there."

From BBC • Sep. 29, 2024

For example, the bases of the geysers in Yellowstone National Park are surrounded by silica deposits called geyserite or sinter.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017

While geysers of this reported size and location are unusual, the area is famous for geothermal activity, drawing tourists to what Visit Rotorua describes as "its spouting geysers, bubbling mud pools and colourful sinter terraces".

From BBC • Nov. 27, 2016

Carl leaned over the spring and pointed toward gray, pearl-like beads: “geyser eggs,” small encrustations of silica deposits called sinter, or geyserite, that line steam vents and springs.

From New York Times • Jul. 1, 2011

The veinstone is pure quartz containing water in microscopical cavities, as in the quartz crystals of granite, but not combined as in the hydrous siliceous sinter deposited from hot springs.

From The Naturalist in Nicaragua by Belt, Thomas