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Smelting

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized

Definitions

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

Equivalents

17 more languages
العربيةالصهر
Catalàfosa
Češtinatavení
日本語溶化
한국어제련
Kurdîkal
Portuguêsfundição
Русскийплавка
Српскиkalплавка
Svenskasmältning
Tagalogmagluto
Türkçekal

Examples

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.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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