smelting

smelting
The process of developing metal from ore by the removal of other substances and impurities. By its derivation, the term is synonymous with the word "melting," but in metallurgy and commercial manufacture it has come to have a more contracted meaning. In his treatise on Metallurgy, Frederick Overman says: "When metallic ores are exposed to heat, and such reagents as develop the metal, we call it smelting, in contradistinction from the mere application of heat, causing the ore to become fluid, which is called 'melting.' " Lowrey v Cowles Electric Smelting & Aluminum Co. (CC Ohio) 68 F 354, 369.

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