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Smelting vs Aluminothermic - What's the difference?

smelting | aluminothermic |

As a verb smelting

is present participle of lang=en.

As a noun smelting

is the process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore.

As an adjective aluminothermic is

relating to, or employing aluminothermy.

smelting

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (metallurgy) The process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore.
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    • , 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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    aluminothermic

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Relating to, or employing aluminothermy