Sentence examples for of smelting from inspiring English sources

There are two types of smelting, reduction smelting and matte smelting.

The Cathance is a tidal tributary of Merrymeeting Bay, a prime spot of smelting territory about an hour's drive up the coast from Portland.

Meanwhile, the Industrial Revolution had democratized arsenic: as a byproduct of smelting iron ore, arsenic trioxide was scraped out of chimneys in vast quantities.

Here in 1709 Abraham Darby introduced a new process of smelting iron using coke (coal that was refined by heating) instead of charcoal.

Then, during the war, acid fumes from the stacks of smelting plants on the New Jersey side of the kill began to drift across and ruin crops, and others got discouraged and quit.

At the completion of smelting, the impure tin is tapped off and cast into large slabs, while the slag is solidified into granules by being poured into water tanks.

The earliest history of smelted iron is obscure, with the first scanty evidence of man-made iron dating from about 2500 bc in the Middle East.

The earliest records of bloomery-type furnaces in East Africa are discoveries of smelted iron and carbon in Nubia and Axum that date back between 1,000 500 BCE.

Steel is a polluting industry, slurping up lots of coal for smelting and spitting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

This was to maximise employment opportunities at the site following the closure of the smelting side of the business last year, she said.

Experience with copper has assisted the development of other metals; in particular, copper smelting led to the discovery of iron smelting.