Smelting

Smelt′ing

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Adj.

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Noun.

from

Smelt

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Smelting furnace

(Metal.)

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a furnace in which ores are smelted or reduced.

Smelting

SMELT'ING

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ppr.

Melting, as ore.

SMELT'ING

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Noun.

The operation of melting ores for the purpose of extracting the metal.

smelting

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smelting

present participle of smelt

Noun

smelting ‎(plural smeltings)

(metallurgy) The process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore.
- 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:
  Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands.

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process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore

Albanian:
Arabic:
Armenian: հալում (hy) ‎(halum)
Basque:
Chinese:
Mandarin: 冶煉 (zh), 冶炼 (zh) ‎(yěliàn), 熔煉 (zh), 熔炼 (zh) ‎(róngliàn)
Dutch: wegsmelten (nl), smelten (nl) n
Finnish: pelkistyssulatus, sulatus (fi)
French: fonte (fr) f, fonderie (fr)

German: Schmelzen (de) n
Hebrew:
Japanese:
Lithuanian:
Low German:
German Low German: Smölten f, n
Manx: lheie m
Maori: whakarewa
Mongolian:
Portuguese: fundição (pt) f
Russian: пла́вка (ru) f ‎(plávka)
Spanish: fundición (es) f
Swedish: smältning
Tagalog: magluto
Turkish:

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