Definition of melting

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Melting (n.) Liquefaction; the act of causing (something) to melt, or the process of becoming melted..

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Dissolving :: Dissolving (a.) Melting; breaking up; vanishing.
Foge :: Foge (n.) The Cornish name for a forge used for smelting tin.
Found :: Found (v. t.) To form by melting a metal, and pouring it into a mold; to cast..
Smeltery :: Smeltery (n.) A house or place for smelting.
Founding :: Founding (n.) The art of smelting and casting metals.
Tallow :: Tallow (n.) The suet or fat of animals of the sheep and ox kinds, separated from membranous and fibrous matter by melting..
Deliquium :: Deliquium (n.) A melting or dissolution in the air, or in a moist place; a liquid condition; as, a salt falls into a deliquium..
Dross :: Dross (n.) The scum or refuse matter which is thrown off, or falls from, metals in smelting the ore, or in the process of melting; recrement..
Thawy :: Thawy (a.) Liquefying by heat after having been frozen; thawing; melting.
Dissolution :: Dissolution (n.) Change from a solid to a fluid state; solution by heat or moisture; liquefaction; melting.
Matte :: Matte (n.) A partly reduced copper sulphide, obtained by alternately roasting and melting copper ore in separating the metal from associated iron ores, and called coarse metal, fine metal, etc., according to the grade of fineness. On the exterior it is dark brown or black, but on a fresh surface is yellow or bronzy in color..
Cruset :: Cruset (n.) A goldsmith's crucible or melting pot.
Crop :: Crop (n.) Tin ore prepared for smelting.
Diluvium :: Diluvium (n.) A deposit of superficial loam, sand, gravel, stones, etc., caused by former action of flowing waters, or the melting of glacial ice..
Tasco :: Tasco (n.) A kind of clay for making melting pots.
Smelting :: Smelting () a. & n. from Smelt.
Deliquation :: Deliquation (n.) A melting.
Shadrach :: Shadrach (n.) A mass of iron on which the operation of smelting has failed of its intended effect; -- so called from Shadrach, one of the three Hebrews who came forth unharmed from the fiery furnace of Nebuchadnezzar. (See Dan. iii. 26, 27.).
Till :: Till (n.) A deposit of clay, sand, and gravel, without lamination, formed in a glacier valley by means of the waters derived from the melting glaciers; -- sometimes applied to alluvium of an upper river terrace, when not laminated, and appearing as if formed in the same manner..
Phosphor-bronze :: Phosphor-bronze (n.) A variety of bronze possessing great hardness, elasticity, and toughness, obtained by melting copper with tin phosphide. It contains one or two per cent of phosphorus and from five to fifteen per cent of tin..
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