Definitions for smalt

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Spelling: [smawlt]
IPA: /smɔlt/

Smalt is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 83 anagrams from letters in smalt (almst).

Definitions for smalt

noun

  1. a coloring agent made of blue glass produced by fusing silica, potassium carbonate, and cobalt oxide, used in powdered form to add color to vitreous materials.

Origin of smalt

1550-60; Middle French Italian smalto smalto

Examples for smalt

Ultimately the goods are mill-washed, blued with smalt and dried.

The portion of Arsenic that is thus fixed vitrifies with the colouring matter, and enters into the composition of the smalt.

This blue is distinguished from smalt by dissolving in acetic acid.

Thus they pound cinnabar and smalt finer than other nations, and yet sell both these articles cheaper.

The inferior kinds of smalt are occasionally adulterated with chalk.

In this trial the glass of Borax will be nearly of the same colour as the true glass, or smalt, made with the same Cobalt.

Zaffre is the roasted mineral ground with sand, while smalt, a term used more frequently, is the fused mixture with sand.

Authorities state that these may be formed from bright Prussian blue or verditer glazed over with Prussian blue or of smalt.

The smalt is usually composed of one part of calcined cobalt, fused with two parts of powder of flint and one of pot-ash.

Cover the bottom of the stand with this paint, or with some other color, then sprinkle profusely with smalt or mica sand.

Word Value for smalt
Scrable

7

Words with friends

9

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