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Dutch or Middle Low German

smelten

to melt, fuse, liquefy

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Historical iron-smelting furnace cutaway, ore and charcoal near small masonry furnace, bright molten metal streams into casting trough, no people, no process instructions or labels.
verb

smelt

SMELT/smelt/

To extract metal from ore by heating.

Etymology
smeltDutch or Middle Low Germanto melt, fuse, liquefy

Smelten meant melting or liquefying. In English, smelt applies that heat-driven process especially to ore in a furnace, where the purpose is to separate out the metal.

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