smelting

English

Verb

smelting

present participle of smelt

Noun

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:
  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.

Derived terms

Translations

process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore

Albanian: please add this translation if you can
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Armenian: հալում (hy) (halum)
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Chinese:
Mandarin: 冶煉 (zh), 冶炼 (zh) (yěliàn), 熔煉 (zh), 熔炼 (zh) (róngliàn)
Dutch: wegsmelten (nl), smelten (nl) n
Finnish: pelkistyssulatus, sulatus (fi)
French: fonte (fr) f, fonderie (fr)
German: Schmelzen (de) n
Greek:
Ancient: χώνευσις f (khṓneusis)
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Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
Low German:
German Low German: Smölten f or n
Manx: lheie m
Maori: whakarewa
Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
Portuguese: fundição (pt) f
Russian: пла́вка (ru) f (plávka)
Spanish: fundición (es) f
Swedish: smältning (sv)
Tagalog: magluto
Turkish: please add this translation if you can

See also

smelting on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

meltings, minglest

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