Use of heat and a reducing agent to extract metal from ore
Smelting is a process of applying heat and a chemical reducing agent to an ore to extract a desired base metal product. It is a form of extractive metallurgy that is used to obtain many metals such as iron, copper, silver, tin, lead and zinc. Smelting uses heat and a chemical reducing agent to decompose the ore, driving off other elements as gases or slag and leaving the metal behind. The reducing agent is commonly a fossil-fuel source of carbon, such as carbon monoxide from incomplete combustion of coke—or, in earlier times, of charcoal. The oxygen in the ore binds to carbon at high temperatures, as the chemical potential energy of the bonds in carbon dioxide is lower than that of the bonds in the ore.
Look up smelt in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Smelt may refer to: Smelting, chemical process The common name of various fish: Smelt (fish), a family
freshwater smelts or typical smelts to distinguish them from the related Argentinidae (herring smelts or argentines), Bathylagidae (deep-sea smelts), and Retropinnidae
anodes have a specific situation in aluminium smelting and depending on the type of anode, aluminium smelting is divided in two different technologies; “Soderberg”
New York Smelting Company, (later on merged into the American Smelting & Refining Company, but commonly referred to as the "Durango Smelter") was a mineral
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in the smelter so we can melt it down and reuse it. A place where smelting is done. Synonym: smelting works We'll take the scrap to the smelter and get
to be checked smelt (third-person singular simple present smelts, present participle smelting, simple past and past participle smelted) To fuse or melt
scale. The apparatus described by Agricola and employed by him for the smelting and testing of ores were still in use at the end of the eighteenth century
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Environmental Prize in 2015. She is known for organizing protests against a lead smelting plant located in the middle of Owino Uhuru, a slum near Mombasa. Our goal
and all along that Araba, on both sides, we found many copper mines and smelting stations, all attributable to Solomon and his immediate successors. Cyrus
