He is smelting copper.
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Smelting
Synonyms for "smelting" (73 found)
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Closest matches (15)
Strong matches (22)
Related words (36)
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Translations
30 translations across 22 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- χώνευσις noun (process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore)
Armenian
1 entries- հալում noun (process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore)
Catalan
1 entries- fosa noun (process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 冶煉 /冶炼 noun (process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore)
- 熔煉 /熔炼 noun (process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore)
Czech
2 entries- tavba noun (process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore)
- tavení noun (process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore)
Dutch
2 entries- smelten noun (process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore)
- wegsmelten noun (process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore)
Finnish
2 entries- pelkistyssulatus noun (process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore)
- sulatus noun (process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore)
French
2 entries- fonderie noun (process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore)
- fonte noun (process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore)
German
1 entries- Schmelzen noun (process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore)
Hebrew
2 entries- הִתּוּךְ noun (process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore)
- זִקּוּק יָבֵשׁ noun (process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore)
Korean
1 entries- 제련 noun (process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore)
Low German
1 entries- Smölten noun (process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore)
Macedonian
2 entries- претопу́вање noun (process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore)
- то́пење noun (process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore)
Manx
1 entries- lheie noun (process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore)
Māori
1 entries- whakarewa noun (process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- قال noun (process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore)
Portuguese
1 entries- fundição noun (process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore)
Russian
1 entries- пла́вка noun (process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore)
Spanish
2 entries- copelación noun (process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore)
- fundición noun (process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore)
Swedish
1 entries- smältning noun (process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore)
Tagalog
1 entries- magluto noun (process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore)
Turkish
1 entries- kal noun (process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
Ships loaded with raw materials go to other nations for the complex process of refining or smelting.
Source: tatoeba (11715204)
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.
Source: wiktionary
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