Smelting

noun, verb

noun, verb ·2 syllables ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore.

    "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."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of smelt form-of, gerund, participle, present

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Example

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"Ships loaded with raw materials go to other nations for the complex process of refining or smelting."

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