smelting
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smelting
- present participle and gerund of smelt
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smelting (plural smeltings)
- (metallurgy) The process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore.
- 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion[1]:
- 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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process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore
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Etymology edit
From Proto-West Germanic *smeltan + -ing. Compare Old High German smelzi, gismelzi (“fused mass, electrum, alloy”), Old Norse smeltr (“enamelled”).
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smelting f
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Declension of smelting (strong ō-stem)
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- Middle English: smulting