Smelting

Verb

1. Present participle of smelt

Full definition of smelting

Noun

1. (metallurgy) The process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore.
• 2006, w, Internal Combustion Chapter 2, 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.

Derived terms

• smelt
• smelter

Anagrams

• meltings