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• furnace: Remains of these smelting furnaces were found among the slag pieces.

• ore: Methods of raising and smelting ore are of interest.

• iron: The invention of huge blast furnaces, capable of smelting iron, was the first step toward making of the new weapons of war.

• mill: There were two types of hearths found in smelting mills.

• metal: Just as with iron, smelting the metal from the ore required a furnace.

• plant: The existing power station supplies electricity directly to the metal smelting plant Anglesey Aluminum in Holyhead.

Preposition: on

• spot: Ironstone within a small outcrop of the Lower Greensand at Seend was formerly quarried and the ore smelted on the spot.

Modifying Another Word

• then: Matte is an extremely rare find because normally it needs to be roasted again and then smelted to produce impure copper.

• first: No person could keep ' first smelting ' tin for more than 14 days unless it had been officially stamped.

• also: Now, however, we have reason to believe that secondary smelting also took place in the Phorades workshop.

• down: Aluminum is smelted down and used to make new aluminum products.

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• down: The flywheel suffered a far worse fate - being sold for scrap to the British Iron & Steel Corporation at Bedford and smelted down.

Present participle complement

• use: This could produce 20 to 30 times more iron than the previous method of smelting using bloomeries.

Preposition: in

• furnace: The ore was then crushed with stones ready for smelting in granite furnaces fired with wood.

• area: It is believed that iron ore has been mined and smelted in the area since Norman times.

Preposition: of

• ore: The smelting of the ore had a dramatic effect on the countryside.

• iron: The first great impulse given to Birmingham was the substitution of coal for wood in the smelting of iron.

• metal: The mining, processing and smelting of metals, has left a legacy of pollution, despoilation and hazards throughout the orefield.

• copper: The smelting of copper from the sulfide ore, a bright green and very soft mineral, was demonstrated.

Preposition: from

• ore: It may have been the first metal smelted from ore.