smelting

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Smelting aluminium, used in the transport, packaging and construction industries, and zinc, used to galvanise steel, require large amounts of electricity.

From Reuters • Aug. 12, 2022

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

Uncle Vernon opened his newspaper as usual and Dudley banged his Smelting stick, which-he carried everywhere, on the table.

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