He is smelting copper.
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Smelting
Synonyms for "smelting" (88 found)
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Noun(2 words)
ancient reductionbloomery smelting
Strong matches (26)
Related words (44)
handicrafthandiworkharvestingincinerationmachiningmakingmanufacturemanufacturingmillingminingmoldingoxidationoxidizationparchingprefabricationpreparationprocessingproducingpyrolysisraising
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Noun(12 words)
historic smeltingindustrialmetal extractionmetallurgicalprocessedpyrometallurgicalpyrometallurgyreductionsmeltsmeltedsmelterssmeltery
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More general
7 entriesextractive metallurgyindustrial processmaterial statemetallurgical processmetallurgypreindustrial technologyproduct form
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13 entriesCollocations
13 entriesblast furnace smeltingcarbothermic reductioncopper smeltingelectric arc smeltingelectric smeltingextractive metallurgyiron smeltingsilicothermic reductionsmelting furnacesmelting operationsmelting oresmelting processsmelting temperature
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3 entriesDerivations
6 entriesSample sentences
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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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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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