Spelter been used since about the 1860s to make statues, tablewares, and lamps that resemble bronze. Spelter is soft and breaks easily. To test for spelter, scratch the base of the piece. Bronze will appear as bright yellow while spelter will show a silvery scratch. The word "pewter" is thought to be derived from the word "spelter". Zinc ingots formed by smelting might also be termed spelter. Spelter 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.
Industrial rock sales and awards bands featured in this page, arranged by number of awards: The following list is composed by IFPI certificated albums only (no Soundscan): Industrial rock sales and awards This is a page containing all available sales and awards from industrial rock and industrial metal artists. This list is far from complete. Many countries were excluded from it because their Industry Associations lacked a searchable, online database. Belgium, Iceland and Mexico are some of them. Some European countries who do have it (Greece, Hungary and Spain) were excluded anyway, because their databases showed no relevant sales pertaining industrial rock and metal groups.