English Dictionary

smelting

noun

(metallurgy) The process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore.

Smelting is an important step in the production of steel.

意味（1）

(metallurgy) The process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore.

Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands.