smelted
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Mike Piazza, the slugger expensively coached from boyhood in the modern manner, saw “the silver spoons of his youth smelted into the first of ten consecutive Silver Slugger awards.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
Some waste, for example, is deliberately mislabelled as "second-hand electronic goods for re-sale", only to be smashed up, recycled and smelted once it reaches its destination.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2025
Which metal is smelted using the Hall-Héroult process?
From New York Times ● Apr. 7, 2024
A large wooden bucket had been kept within, containing several damaged bronze objects and worn axe-heads, waiting to be smelted down and recycled into new tools.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 20, 2024
They also acquired iron, which had just begun to be smelted in Africa’s Sahel zone.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
