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Smelting vs Founding - What's the difference?

smelting | founding |

As verbs the difference between smelting and founding

is that smelting is while founding is .

As nouns the difference between smelting and founding

is that smelting is (metallurgy) the process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore while founding is the action of the verb to found ; the establishment of something.

As an adjective founding is

who or that founds or found.

smelting

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (metallurgy) The process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore.
  • * {{quote-book, year=2006, author=
    • , title=Internal Combustion , chapter=2 citation , passage=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

    See also

    * ("smelting" on Wikipedia)

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    founding

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The action of the verb to found ; the establishment of something.
    • the founding of the republic
  • * 2005 , Donatella Della Porta, Sidney G. Tarrow, Transnational Protest and Global Activism
    • Do foundings of transnational organizations appear to spur foundings of national organizations, or vice versa?

    Adjective

    (head)
  • Who or that founds or found.
    • The founding fathers of our country.