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Definitions of smelter in various dictionaries:
noun - an industrial plant for smelting
An apparatus for smelting.
Also smeltery (smHlùtN-rK).
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Smelting is a process of applying heat to ore in order to extract out a base metal. It is a form of extractive metallurgy. It is used to extract many metals from their ores, including silver, iron, copper, and other base metals. Smelting uses heat and a chemical reducing agent to decompose the ore, driving off other elements as gases or slag and leaving the metal base behind. The reducing agent is commonly a source of carbon, such as cokeor, in earlier times, charcoal. * The carbon (or carbon monoxide derived from it) removes oxygen from the ore, leaving the elemental metal. The carbon thus oxidizes in two stages, producing first carbon monoxide and then carbon dioxide. As most ores are impure, it is often necessary to use flux, such as limestone, to remove the accompanying rock gangue as slag. * Plants for the electrolytic reduction of aluminium are also generally referred to as aluminium smelters. * Labourers working in the smelting industry have reported respiratory illnesses inhibiting t |
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