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Smelting vs Dissolving - What's the difference?

smelting | dissolving | Related terms |

Smelting is a related term of dissolving.


As verbs the difference between smelting and dissolving

is that smelting is while dissolving is .

As nouns the difference between smelting and dissolving

is that smelting is (metallurgy) the process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore while dissolving is the act by which something dissolves.

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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    dissolving

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something dissolves.
  • * 2009 , Gregor Damschen, ?Robert Schnepf, ?Karsten Stüber, Debating Dispositions
    • For example, the only manifestation of solubility is dissolving, and being immersed in liquid is its only circumstances of manifestation. Perhaps there are some differences between particular immersions or dissolvings , but they must be similar enough