Smelting

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Smelt \Smelt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Smelted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Smelting}.] [Of foreign origin; cf. Sw. sm[aum]lta, D.
     smelten, Dan. smelte, Icel. smelta, G. schmelzen OHG.
     smelzan, smelzen; probably akin to Gr. ?????. Cf. {Enamel},
     {Melt}, {Mute}, v. i., {Smalt}.] (Metal.)
     To melt or fuse, as, ore, for the purpose of separating and


     refining the metal; hence, to reduce; to refine; to flux or
     scorify; as, to smelt tin.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Smelting \Smelt"ing\,
     a. & n. from {Smelt}.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     {Smelting furnace} (Metal.), a furnace in which ores are
        smelted or reduced.
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From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  73 Moby Thesaurus words for "smelting":
     architecture, assembly, blazing, blistering, branding, building,
     burning, calcination, carbonization, casting, cauterization,
     cautery, cineration, combustion, composition, concremation,
     construction, conversion, cracking, crafting, craftsmanship,
     creation, cremation, cultivation, cupellation, deflagration,
     destructive distillation, devising, distillation, distilling,
     elaboration, erection, extraction, fabrication, fashioning,
     flaming, formation, forming, formulation, framing, growing,
     handicraft, handiwork, harvesting, incineration, machining, making,
     manufacture, manufacturing, milling, mining, molding, oxidation,
     oxidization, parching, prefabrication, preparation, processing,
     producing, pyrolysis, raising, refining, scorching, scorification,
     searing, self-immolation, shaping, singeing, suttee, the stake,
     thermogenesis, vesication, workmanship