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smeltings

smeltings is the plural of smelting.

Meaning of smelting

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

Questions about smeltings

What is smeltings the plural of?
Smeltings is the plural of smelting.

Words near smeltings in the dictionary

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

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