smelting
CEFR: C1
The metallurgical chemical extraction of elemental metals from raw ore minerals through intense kiln heating.
Synonyms
- pyrometallurgical extraction
- ore melting
Common Collocations
- iron smelting
- smelting furnace
- smelting process
Example Sentence
Substituting charcoal with purified coke in blast furnace smelting vastly expanded eighteenth-century pig iron output.