smelting

smelting

1. present participle and gerund of smelt

smelting (plural smeltings)

1. (metallurgy) The process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore.
   • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion‎^[1]:

     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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From Proto-West Germanic *smeltan +‎ -ing. Compare Old High German smelzi, gismelzi (“fused mass, electrum, alloy”), Old Norse smeltr (“enamelled”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsmel.tinɡ/, [ˈsmeɫ.tiŋɡ]

smelting f

1. amber

Strong ō-stem:

• Middle English: smulting