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dead-melt

dead-melt is the alternative form of deadmelt.

Meaning of deadmelt

Verb

deadmelt (third-person singular simple present deadmelts, present participle deadmelting, simple past and past participle deadmelted)

  1. To melt steel at high temperatures in order to deoxidize it.
    • At 0.09 per cent. carbon the bath is usually underdone.” because a relatively high temperature is required to deadmelt at this carbon.1917, The Engineer - Volume 124, page 277

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Forms of dead-melt

Verb
third-person singular presentdead-melts
present participledead-melting
past participledead-melted
pastdead-melted
Noun
pluraldead-melts

Questions about dead-melt

What is dead-melt the alternative form of?
Dead-melt is the alternative form of deadmelt.

Words near dead-melt in the dictionary

  1. dead-lift
  2. dead-light
  3. dead-lights
  4. dead-march
  5. dead-marches
  6. dead-melt
  7. dead-melted
  8. dead-melting
  9. dead-melts
  10. dead-name
  11. dead-named

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