Processes metal

Usage examples of smelts.

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.