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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 marches
  2. dead marine
  3. dead marines
  4. dead meat
  5. dead media
  6. dead melt
  7. dead melted
  8. dead melting
  9. dead melts
  10. dead men
  11. dead men can tell no tales

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