Smelt (Verb)
Meaning
Extract (metals) by heating.
Classification
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing.
Examples
- They smelt the ore in a blast furnace to extract the iron metal.
- The company used an electric arc furnace to smelt steel from scrap metal.
- In the early days of metalworking, people smelt copper from its ores to create tools and jewelry.
- Ancient metalworkers smelt gold by heating it with a blowpipe to separate it from other minerals.
- The smelting process involved smelting the mixture of metals and silicates to produce a molten metal that could be cast into ingots.