Smelting vs Pyrometallurgy - What's the difference?
smelting | pyrometallurgy |
(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 any process that uses high temperatures to transform either metals or their ores
As nouns the difference between smelting and pyrometallurgy
is that smelting is the process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore while pyrometallurgy is any process that uses high temperatures to transform either metals or their ores.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.}}