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Extracts metal by heating
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smelts
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n. (plural of smelt English) vb. (en-third-person singular of: smelt )
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This reduction is made by subjecting the ore with coal to a high temperature, either by the rapid and easy Catalan method, which has the advantage of transforming the ore into iron in a single operation, or by the blast furnace, which first smelts the ore, then changes it into iron, by carrying away the three to four per cent.
There’s a creek about fifty yards behind my house, and May is the month when smelts run up the tidal creeks.