Word Meanings - SMELTING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

a. & n. from Smelt. Smelting furnace , a furnace in which ores are smelted or reduced.

Related words: (words related to SMELTING)

• REDUCEMENT
  Reduction. Milton.
• REDUCE
  To bring to the metallic state by separating from impurities; hence, in general, to remove oxygen from; to deoxidize; to combine with, or to subject to the action of, hydrogen; as, ferric iron is reduced to ferrous iron; or metals are reduced from
• SMELTERY
  A house or place for smelting.
• REDUCTIVE
  Tending to reduce; having the power or effect of reducing. -- n.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• REDUCTIVELY
  By reduction; by consequence.
• SMELTING
  a. & n. from Smelt. Smelting furnace , a furnace in which ores are smelted or reduced.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• REDUCT
  To reduce. W. Warde.
• REDUCING
  a & n. from Reduce. Reducing furnace , a furnace for reducing ores. -- Reducing pipe fitting, a pipe fitting, as a coupling, an elbow, a tee, etc., for connecting a large pipe with a smaller one. -- Reducing valve, a device for automatically
• SMELTIE
  A fish, the bib.
• SMELT
  of Smell.
• REDUCER
  One who, or that which, reduces.
• REDUCTION
  The act or process of reducing. See Reduce, v. t., 6. and To reduce an equation, To reduce an expression, under Reduce, v. t. The correction of observations for known errors of instruments, etc. The preparation of the facts and measurements
• SMELTER
  One who, or that which, smelts.
• FURNACE
  1. An inclosed place in which heat is produced by the combustion of fuel, as for reducing ores or melting metals, for warming a house, for baking pottery, etc.; as, an iron furnace; a hot-air furnace; a glass furnace; a boiler furnace, etc. Note:
• REDUCIBLENESS
  Quality of being reducible.
• REDUCENT
  Tending to reduce. -- n.
• REDUCTIBILITY
  The quality of being reducible; reducibleness.
• REDUCIBLE
  Capable of being reduced.
• IRREDUCIBLE
  Incapable of being reduced to a simpler form of expression; as, an irreducible formula. Irreducible case , a particular case in the solution of a cubic equation, in which the formula commonly employed contains an imaginary quantity, and therefore
• PERNOT FURNACE
  A reverberatory furnace with a circular revolving hearth, -- used in making steel.
• ASH-FURNACE; ASH-OVEN
  A furnace or oven for fritting materials for glass making.