sintered

Very finely powdered metal, packed tightly and heated to a relatively low temperature -- "sintered" is the word -- becomes a solid mass.

Space Tug Murray Leinster 1935

It is mildly humorous when someone makes a definitive statement that we can't do things like pour metal into sintered sand molds, something that we have been doing for hundreds of years here on the Earth.

Why the Moon? Here's Why. - NASA Watch 2009

Designer Michiel Cornelissen laser-sintered stainless-steel crucifix has screwdriver bits cut into each tip, turning it into a screwdriver that repels vampires.

Boing Boing 2009

The solution Dyson's engineers found: pass the air flowing inside the housing over 20 ceramic stones – made, the company says, of "a sintered compound".

Inventor James Dyson launches heater that cannot burn you 2011

The Tuff-n-Lite fabric is woven out of ultra high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWC), also known as P-Tex, the same material used in sintered ski and snowboard bases.

Tour Tech: DeFeet’s UnDXstream Tuff-n-Lite shirt 2010

The enriched UF6 is converted to UO2 and made into fuel pellets — ultimately a sintered ceramic — that are encased in metal tubes to form fuel rods, typically up to four meters long.

Uranium enrichment 2009

These are formed from pressed uranium oxide that is sintered (baked) at a high temperature (over 1400ƒ C).

Nuclear fuel cycle 2009

Substitutes for crushed stone used as construction aggregates include sand and gravel, slag, sintered or expanded clay or shale, and perlite or vermiculite.

Crushed stone 2008

This powder is then pressed into pellets, sintered into ceramic form, loaded into Zircaloy tubes, and constructed into fuel assemblies.

Nuclear fuel fabrication 2007

Hitachi poin ts to a diamond-sintered ridge at the tip of the bits as the major timesaving factor.

Hitachi’s bits are important parts 2007