ore - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • smelled: Methods of raising and smelting ore are of interest.
  • crush: He may have seen this water driven tilt hammer used for crushing metal ore in Yorkshire.

Preposition: in

  • furnace: The highlight of 1998 was an experiment to smelled Shetland iron ore in a furnace built from stone and clay gathered locally.

Adjective modifier

  • sw17: Check St. George's catalog Hunter Wing, Cranmer Terrace, London SW17 ORE.
  • metalliferous: The mountain is rich in metalliferous ore, there being several veins of copper intersecting its eastern side.
  • high-grade: Energy requirements for these processes depend on high-grade uranium ore, which is expected to be exhausted within 50 years.
  • metallic: Waste had to be separated from the metallic ores.
  • Lead: Swaledale has been richly endowed with deposits of Lead ore, principally Galena, which is Lead Sulfide, a shiny silvery gray mineral.
  • crushed: A fire was then lit inside the furnace and hot layers of charcoal and crushed iron ore were added alternately.

Modifies a noun

  • pitchblende: Services for straight of villages into the ore pitchblende.
  • deposit: The area was found to contain the biggest iron ore deposit in the world.
  • extraction: Evidence of iron working at Carmarthen implies nearby iron ore extraction.
  • mining: Ashland was once a major shipping dock for Iron and ore mining.
  • mineral: Grade Relative quantity or the percentage of ore mineral content in an ore body.

Noun used with modifier

  • iron: The early miners found plenty of iron ore at or near to the surface of the ground.
  • uranium: New fuel for nuclear reactors is produced from enriched uranium ore.
  • sulfide: However, if you are starting with a sulfide ore, for example, that's not a lot of help!
  • copper: The imported copper ore came ' almost wholly ' from Ireland.
  • manganese: Both occur as microcrystalline orange-brown veinlets in massive manganese ore.
  • low-grade: Even without any increase in this consumption the present known reserves, of what is mainly low-grade ore, will last around 50 years.

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