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Spelter, while sometimes used merely as a synonym for zinc, is often used to identify a zinc alloy. In this sense it might be an alloy of equal parts copper and zinc, i.e. a brass, used for hard soldering and brazing, or as an alloy, containing lead, that is used instead of bronze. In this usage it was common for many 19th-century cheap, cast articles such as candlesticks and clock cases and early 20th-century Art Nouveau ornaments and Art Deco figures.
The word 'pewter' is thought to be derived from the word 'spelter'.[1] Zinc ingots formed by smelting might also be termed spelter.
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- ^ Skeat, Walter William (1893), An etymological dictionary of the English language (2nd ed.), Clarendon Press, pp. 438–439, http://books.google.com/books?id=OHkKAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA438#v=onepage&q&f=false.
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