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What is the noun for smelting?

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smelter
  1. A person employed to do smelting.
  2. A machine used to smelt metal.
  3. A place where smelting is done.
  4. Examples:
    1. “The tram was built to carry coal from the immediately adjacent coal mine to a row of beehive coking ovens and thence to the smelter furnaces.”
      “McCubbin concluded smelter fumes had damaged white pines, larch, poplar, jack pine and spruce.”
      “When he arrived, he found Lona using a plasma smelter on the alorium plate, bending it into new shapes for reinforcing her armor.”
smelt
  1. Production of metal, especially iron, from ore in a process that involves melting and chemical reduction of metal compounds into purified metal.
  2. Any of the various liquids or semi-molten solids produced and used during the course of such production.
  3. Synonyms:
smelt
  1. Any small anadromous fish of the family Osmeridae, found in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and in lakes in North America and northern part of Europe.
  2. (obsolete) A fool; a simpleton.
  3. Synonyms:
smelting
smeltery
  1. A building or place for smelting.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The initial group comprised 90 lead workers from a secondary lead smeltery, all of whom had experienced long-term exposure to lead.”
      “Similar findings with respect to basal hormone concentrations were reported by Gustafson et al. in a previous study of lead workers from the present smeltery.”
      “Potential hyper-accumulation of Pb, Zn, Cu and Cd in endurant plants distributed in an old smeltery, northeast China.”
smeltings
  1. plural of smelting
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Little is known of the details of these practices, but their existence is confirmed by early documents that mention taxation of first and second smeltings.”
smelteries
  1. plural of smeltery
smelters
  1. plural of smelter
  2. Examples:
    1. “Emissions of sulfur dioxide and metals from smelters can cause damage to surrounding terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.”
      “Along with a sawmill, power plant, and gypsum processing facility, Belledune is also home to one of the world's largest lead and zinc smelters.”
      “Alumina is a fine white granular powder, which is exported to aluminium smelters for processing into aluminium metal.”
smelts
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