smelting
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smelting
verb
- present participle and gerund of smelt
noun smeltings
- 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.
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Talk about this word "smelting." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/smelting. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. smelting. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/smelting "smelting." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/smelting.
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@misc{smelting_2026,
title = {smelting},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/smelting},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
