Crossword clues for smelts
smelts
- Refines ore
- Purifies metal
- Produces steel
- Little fishes
- Does refinery work
- Does foundry work
- Works in a refinery
- Salmon relatives
- Runs a refinery
- Refines rocks
- Produces slag
- Processes metal
- Operates a refinery
- Important Maine fishery
- Fuses, as metal
- Fuses ore
- Extracts the metal from
- Extracts metal from
- Extracts in plants
- A Friday fry
- Refines, as ore
- Processes, as ore
- Silvery food fishes
- Gets the lead out?
- Refines, as metal
- Extracts metal from ore
- Goes for the gold?
- Refines, in a way
- Silvery fishes
- Refines metal
- Fuses, as ore
- Fish dish
- Troutlike fish
- Seafood
- Small fish
- Extracts metal by heating
- Food fish
- Runs a blast furnace
- Coldwater fish
- Coldwater fishes
Wiktionary
smelts
n. (plural of smelt English) vb. (en-third-person singular of: smelt)
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.