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Stacks of refined (left) and crude (right) Tin ingots after smelting.

The Guggenheim family, with their friend J.P. Morgan, ran the copper-smelting game.

Such a furnace worked there for many years, until copper smelting was removed from Cornwall to Wales.

The economy of heat in smelting furnaces and in the arated steam-engine were bold means to large results.

But Mr. Leaf tells us that, "by primitive modes of smelting," iron is made "hard and brittle, like cast iron."

On its banks some buildings have been constructed, for the smelting of copper ore.

The Pacific coast has Chicago for her smelting furnace, four large silver mills being located here.

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

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