smelting

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After living with my furnaces for a decade or so, I can’t say I could have passed a quiz from Smelting 101.

From New York Times • Jul. 28, 2022

In its heyday, a typical week’s shipment to the American Smelting and Refining Company in Everett in the summer of 1896 was more than 1,000 tons, worth $920,000 in 2016 dollars.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 30, 2021

Smelting aluminium requires vast amounts of electricity, which is provided by a hydroelectric dam in the hills above the smelter.

From BBC • May 30, 2021

Another set of actors toiled away at the American Smelting and Refining Company.

From Slate • Apr. 17, 2020

After a minute of confused fighting, in which everyone got hit a lot by the Smelting stick, Uncle Vernon straightened up, gasping for breath, with Harry’s letter clutched in his hand.

From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling