Smelting vs Aluminothermy - What's the difference?
smelting | aluminothermy |
(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 (inorganic chemistry) the production of a metal from its oxide by heating it with aluminium
As nouns the difference between smelting and aluminothermy
is that smelting is the process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore while aluminothermy is the production of a metal from its oxide by heating it with aluminium.As a verb smelting
is present participle of lang=en.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.}}