Smelting is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SMELTING in dictionary:

VERB:
• extract (metal) from its ore by a process involving heating and melting
• extract a metal from (ore) by smelting
NOUN:
• the act of smelting
• a small silvery fish which lives in both marine and fresh water and is sometimes fished commercially.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to melt or fuse, as ores
• a. & n. from Smelt.
• the process of melting ores to obtain metal

Words related to SMELTING

smell7 smelt7 smelted10 smeltings12 smelts8

Words that contain SMELTING

smeltings12 resmelting13

How to use SMELTING in a sentence

• Munition factories, the fires of destruction smelting all night, worked three shifts.
• But he made them his own by smelting the rough ore into bell metal.
• Such portions as were deemed sufficiently rich were at once conveyed to the smelting furnace, where the pure ore was melted down and extracted from the virgin fossil.
• In those famous yards, everything that is necessary for the building of the largest ironclad, from the first smelting of the ore until the last rivet is in place, can be done.
• These two classes of ores are either treated separately, or mixed together in such proportion as is found by experience to be most suitable for the smelting process.
• My dear mother encouraged me in this, and later on I frequently went to Freiburg, in the Black Forest, to get a practical insight into smelting.
• Thirty years of persistent labor at smelting have increased the quantity over a thousandfold and reduced the cost upward of fifty per cent.
• Mines exist in the neighbourhood, at present neglected owing to the difficulty of the smelting process.
• Smelting of copper, tin, zinc, lead, silver, iron, must be guided by chemistry.
• There are whole tribes in India who have no other occupation than iron smelting.
• It is this slag being found in places where iron is not now made that shows that iron smelting was an occupation there, perhaps many centuries before.
• It is mixed with other substances in the ore, from which it is obtained by smelting in the furnace.
• What do the terms Refining and Smelting signify? Refining is the art of rendering the metal free from all impurities.
• The idea of this fool starting a smelting furnace in his house without knowing it and getting his dull eyes opened.
• The most important smelting and reducing plants are those at Trail and Nelson in the West Kootenay country, and at Grand Forks and Greenwood in the Boundary district.
• A laboratory for the smelting of other ores was constructed at Petersburg, Virginia, and was in operation before midsummer of 1862.
• To provide the iron needed for cannon and projectiles, it had been necessary to stimulate by contracts the mining and smelting of its ores.
• The lead- and copper-smelting works erected were sufficient for all wants, and the smelting of zinc of good quality had been achieved.
• Some one has said that Oonalaska and Oomnak are the smelting furnaces of America.
• These blocks they wanted split up in pieces about an inch square to mix in with charcoal in smelting ore.
• They thoroughly understood the smelting of ores, but could render no scientific account of the processes.
• The road now went downwards between large banks, formed by the dross deposited here from the smelting furnaces, and which looks like burnt-out hardened lava.
• In spite of all prohibition its use rapidly spread, and it was soon applied to the smelting of iron and to other purposes.
• This denudation of forest has been largely due to the wood being used by the Khasis for fuel for iron smelting in days gone by.
• Nowadays the smelting of iron is carried on in very few places.
• Yule and Cracroft have described the native process of smelting iron, and it is only necessary to refer to their papers if information is required on the subject.
• The system pursued, both in the extraction and in the subsequent smelting of the ore, is the same at the present day as that described by Yule.
• Here also she is credited with having first introduced the art of smelting iron, and she is said to have made various iron implements which she exported to the plains.
• When both of them became very intimate thus, the children of men advised U Suidnoh to build a smelting house.
• At Tacoma is located one of the largest smelting and refining plants in the nation, which draws its ores from all parts of the world.
• When the time had come for the process of smelting, it was observed that the copper remained hard and intractable.
• The land was subject to the Songhay, but the cities became industrious centers of smelting, weaving, and dyeing.
• It seems not unlikely that the people who made the marvelous discovery of reducing iron ores by smelting were the African Negroes.

Similar words containing SMELT without suffix ing

smelt7 smelts8 resmelt9 smelted10 smelter9 outsmelt10 resmelts10 smelters10 smeltery13 jacksmelt24 resmelted12 smeltings12 jacksmelts25 resmelting13 smelteries12

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