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Webster 1913 Edition
Smelting
Smelt′ing
,Adj.
& Noun.
Smelt
. Smelting furnace
(Metal.)
, a furnace in which ores are smelted or reduced.
Webster 1828 Edition
Smelting
SMELT'ING
,ppr.
SMELT'ING
,Noun.
Definition 2024
smelting
smelting
English
Verb
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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Derived terms
Translations
process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore