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In 1915, Alcoa bought the unfinished dam, the plant, and the town, and began smelting two years later.

An estimated half of these batteries end up in the informal recycling sector, where they are broken apart and smelted, causing lead particles to leak into the environment.

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My nostrils have smelt the horrors of the (cloth) diaper pail.

So far, proposals of “Senate flounder,” “House blowfish,” and “Hope and Change smelt” have met with little public acceptance.

The Romans learned how to smelt copper into brass, then bronze, to make weapons, and suddenly war was an entirely different game.

A moment later there was Something nearly at his left elbow, and he smelt again the nameless, fœtid reek.

But also he saw strange, unaccustomed raiment, he saw a sheet of gold, he smelt the soft breath of ambra.

I offered one of them a small bronze ring; he took it, smelt it, shook his head, and gave me to understand that it was not gold.

I merely just touched a piece of fresh rind, and my hands smelt of it the next morning.

Hunters are abundantly aware of this, and have to be quite as careful to avoid being smelt by their game as to avoid being seen.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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