Smelting vs Unsmelted - What's the difference?
smelting | unsmelted |
(metallurgy) The process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore.
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, chapter=2 (metallurgy) Not smelted; not having been subjected to a smelting process; still in the state of being an unrefined ore.
In metallurgy terms the difference between smelting and unsmelted
is that smelting is the process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore while unsmelted is not smelted; not having been subjected to a smelting process; still in the state of being an unrefined ore.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 unsmelted is
not smelted; not having been subjected to a smelting process; still in the state of being an unrefined ore.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.}}