Roasting vs Smelting - What's the difference?
roasting | smelting |
The act by which something is roasted.
* 1885 , Henry Marion Howe, Copper smelting (page 15)
(metallurgy) The process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore.
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As verbs the difference between roasting and smelting
is that roasting is present participle of lang=en while smelting is present participle of lang=en.As nouns the difference between roasting and smelting
is that roasting is the act by which something is roasted while smelting is the process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore.As an adjective roasting
is very hot.roasting
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(wikipedia roasting)Verb
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(en noun)- These elements are expelled more completely by a large number of comparatively incomplete roastings (alternated, of course, with smeltings) than by a smaller number of extremely thorough roastings
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* *smelting
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(en noun)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.}}