smelting
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English
Verb
smelting
- present participle and gerund 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.
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Translations
process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore
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Old English
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Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *smeltan + -ing. Compare Old High German smelzi, gismelzi (“fused mass, electrum, alloy”), Old Norse smeltr (“enamelled”).
Pronunciation
Noun
smelting f
Declension
Declension of smelting (strong ō-stem)
Descendants
- Middle English: smulting