Smelting
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Smelting — Smelting. См. Выплавка. (Источник: «Металлы и сплавы. Справочник.» Под редакцией Ю.П. Солнцева; НПО Профессионал , НПО Мир и семья ; Санкт Петербург, 2003 г.) … Словарь металлургических терминов
Smelting — For other uses, see Smelt (disambiguation). Electric phosphate smelting furnace in a TVA chemical plant (1942) Smelting is a form of extractive metallurgy; its main use is to produce a metal from its ore. This includes iron extraction from … Wikipedia
smelting — Process by which a metal is obtained from its ore, either as the element or as a simple compound, usually by heating beyond the melting point, ordinarily in the presence of reducing agents such as coke or oxidizing agents such as air (see… … Universalium
smelting — The process of developing metal from ore by the removal of other substances and impurities. By its derivation, the term is synonymous with the word melting, but in metallurgy and commercial manufacture it has come to have a more contracted… … Ballentine's law dictionary
Smelting — Smelt Smelt, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Smelted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Smelting}.] [Of foreign origin; cf. Sw. sm[ a]lta, D. smelten, Dan. smelte, Icel. smelta, G. schmelzen OHG. smelzan, smelzen; probably akin to Gr. ?????. Cf. {Enamel}, {Melt}, {Mute}, v … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
smelting — noun Smelting is used after these nouns: ↑copper … Collocations dictionary
smelting — fishing for smelt (Osmeridae) through the ice … Dictionary of ichthyology
smelting — noun The process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore … Wiktionary
smelting — processing of metal ore in order to extract the metal in its pure form. The word is probably from the Middle German for “melt” and heat is indeed the main requirement but other chemicals (called fluxes) are required as catalysts and to deal… … Geography glossary
smelting — Synonyms and related words: architecture, assembly, blazing, blistering, branding, building, burning, calcination, carbonization, casting, cauterization, cautery, cineration, combustion, composition, concremation, construction, conversion,… … Moby Thesaurus