2. Noun. (metallurgy) The process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore. ¹
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Definition of Smelting
1. smelt [v] - See also: smelt
Medical Definition of Smelting
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From Smelt.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Smelting
Literary usage of Smelting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William B. Dana (1850)
"In the case of sulphuret of copper, containing 20 per cent of copper, or upward—say,
in smelting one Um, (which, after being calcined in the ordinary manner ..."
2. The Engineering Index Annual for by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1908)
"I. The Mutual Relations and Grievances of the smelting Trust and the Ore ...
87368 N. smelting. The Chief Advances in Copper smelting in Modern Times. ..."
3. The Engineering Index Annual for by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1908)
"I. The Mutual Relations and Grievances of the smelting Trust and the Ore ...
87368 N. smelting. The Chief Advances in Copper smelting in Modern Times. ..."
4. The Engineering Index Annual for by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1908)
"I. The Mutual Relations and Grievances of the smelting Trust and the Ore ...
87368 N. smelting. The Chief Advances in Copper smelting in Modern Times. ..."
5. The Metallurgy of Gold by Thomas Kirke Rose (1898)
"PYRITIC smelting. THE best known and most extensively practised smelting processes
for the treatment of gold and silver ores—viz., lead smelting, ..."
6. The Metallurgy of Gold by Thomas Kirke Rose (1898)
"PYRITIC smelting. THE best known and most extensively practised smelting processes
for the treatment of gold and silver ores—viz., lead smelting, ..."
7. The Mineral Industry by Richard Pennefather Rothwell (1897)
"PAGE Method of Preparing Tellurium at the Royal Hungarian smelting Works at Schem-
mtz—Market Price of Tellurium—Occurrence of Gold-Silver Telluride Ores in ..."
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