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Webster 1913 Edition


Smelting

Smelt′ing

,
Adj.
&
Noun.
from
Smelt
.
Smelting furnace
(Metal.)
,
a furnace in which ores are smelted or reduced.

Webster 1828 Edition


Smelting

SMELT'ING

,
ppr.
Melting, as ore.

SMELT'ING

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

Definition 2024


smelting

smelting

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smelting

  1. present participle of smelt

Noun

smelting (plural smeltings)

  1. (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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