noun
- a crude zinc oxide obtained as a sublimate in smelting zinc ores
Usage: technical; metallurgy
Examples
- The furnace produced tutty as a byproduct of zinc smelting.
- Tutty was collected from the flue during the refining process.
- The metallurgist examined the tutty for purity.
- Ancient texts describe tutty as a medicinal powder.
- The zinc works generated considerable amounts of tutty.