smelt

Object

• 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.

Followed by an intransitive particle

• 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.