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Smelting vs Spelting - What's the difference?

smelting | spelting |

As verbs the difference between smelting and spelting

is that smelting is present participle of lang=en while spelting is present participle of spelt.

As a noun smelting

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

smelting

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  • 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

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    spelting

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