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smelting

smelting is the present participle and gerund of smelt.

Meaning of smelt

Verb

smelt (third-person singular simple present smelts, present participle smelting, simple past and past participle smelted)

  1. To produce metal, especially iron, from ore in a process that involves heating and chemical reduction of metal compounds into purified metal.

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Noun

smelting (plural smeltings)

  1. The process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore.
    • 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.2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion

Forms of smelting

pluralsmeltings

Words formed from smelting

Questions about smelting

What does smelting mean?
Smelting means the process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore.
What is smelting the present participle and gerund of?
Smelting is the present participle and gerund of smelt.
What part of speech is smelting?
Smelting is a noun.
What is the plural of smelting?
The plural of smelting is smeltings.

Words near smelting in the dictionary

  1. smelter dust
  2. smelter dusts
  3. smelteries
  4. smelters
  5. smeltery
  6. smelting
  7. smelting works
  8. smeltings
  9. smelts
  10. Smeltz
  11. Smeltzer

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