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  • a. & n. from smelt.
  • (Metal.) a furnace in which ores are smelted or reduced.

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  • verb Present participle of smelt.
  • noun metallurgy The process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore.

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Examples

  • Iyer Sundar Raj, a spokesman for the Tuticorin smelter, told Dow Jones Newswires that since smelting is a process-based industry, shutting down of operations will take time.

    India Court Stays Vedanta Unit's Plant Closure Prasenjit Bhattacharya 2010

  • For example, private firms generated sales of 797.3 billion yuan (US$101 billion) last year an annual growth of 55 per cent since 2000 in smelting and processing of ferrous and non-ferrous metals alone.

    China’s Private Firms are Powering Their Economy | Impact Lab 2006

  • That is a British company which came with English, capital to Queensland some years ago and spent quite a lot of money developing that vast silver-lead mine, away in the interior, working under pretty hard conditions because it was costing a considerable amount of money to transport coke and other materials required for smelting from the coast to the mine.

    Trade Relations Between Australia and Canada 1937

  • (Isa 1: 24); degenerate princes (see on [689] Isa 1: 22), intermingled with the elect "remnant" of grace. tin -- Hebrew, bedil, here the alloy of lead, tin, &c., separated by smelting from the silver.

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • Portions of it falling in the fire might have suggested the idea of smelting and of molding -- might, at least, have lead to experiments in that line.

    The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races Emory Adams Allen

  • Counts, and they leased out single portions, called smelting furnaces, sometimes for lives, sometimes for a term of years.

    Life of Luther Julius Koestlin

  • The whole working of the mines belonged to the Counts, and they leased out single portions, called smelting furnaces, sometimes for lives, sometimes for a term of years.

    Life of Martin Luther Koestlin, Julius 1881

  • But the same popular prejudice which existed against the use of coal for domestic purposes, prevented its being employed for purposes of manufacture; and they were thought very foolish persons indeed who first promulgated the idea of smelting iron by means of pit-coal.

    Industrial Biography Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 1863

  • But the same popular prejudice which existed against the use of coal for domestic purposes, prevented its being employed for purposes of manufacture; and they were thought very foolish persons indeed who first promulgated the idea of smelting iron by means of pit-coal.

    Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers Samuel Smiles 1858

  • Dioxins, industrial byproducts that have been linked to cancer and other ailments, result from manufacturing processes such as smelting and paper production.

    Germany Stops Farm Sales Of Meat, Eggs Over Dioxin Patrick McGroarty 2011

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