smelt
Other forms: smelting; smelts; smelted
No, this verb doesn't involve using your nose. When you smelt metal, you remove it from ore, or rock. Heat is required to smelt iron.
Smelt looks a lot like melt and that is an easy way to remember what this process involves. To smelt metal, you have to heat the rock, which is called ore, until the metal inside it melts or liquefies. That metal is the part that has use and value, but hard work is needed to extract it.
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extract (metals) by heating
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small cold-water silvery fish; migrate between salt and fresh watertypes:type of:fishthe flesh of fish used as food
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small trout-like silvery marine or freshwater food fishes of cold northern waterstypes:Osmerus mordax, rainbow smeltimportant marine and landlocked food fish of eastern North America and Alaskatype of:
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