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smelting

From: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008

smelting in metallurgy, any process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore. Smelting processes vary in detail depending on the nature of the ore and the metal involved, but they are typified in the use of the blast furnace .

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