Word Finder - smelters

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A person employed to do smelting.

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He works as a smelter.

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A machine used to smelt metal.

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Throw the scrap in the smelter so we can melt it down and reuse it.

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A place where smelting is done.

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We'll take the scrap to the smelter and get some money for it.

There are copper smelters at Garfield, Copperton and Binghamton.

The Butte, Anaconda & Pacific railway carries ore from the mines at Butte to the smelters at Anaconda.

The city is the commercial and financial centre of the state (Butte being the mining centre), and is one of the richest cities in the United States in proportion to its population, It has large railway car-shops, extensive smelters and quartz crushers (at East Helena), and various manufacturing establishments; the value of the factory product in 1905 was $1,309,746, an increase of 68.7% over that of 1900.

The manufacture of felt hats (product, 1905, $4,586,040, Newark ranking third in this industry among the cities of the United States), carriages, chairs and jewelry (an industry established about 1830; product, 1905, $9,258,095), developed rapidly early in the 19th century, and there are extensive manufactories of malt liquors (product, 1905, $10,917,003), and of clothing (product, 1905, $3,937,138), foundries and machine shops (product, 1905, $6,254,153), and large establishments for smelting and refining lead and copper, the product of the lead smelters and refining establishments being in 1905 the most valuable in the city.

There are smelters and cyanide extracters in the district, but the bulk of the ore product is shipped to other places for treatment.

Other important manufactories are flour mills, of which there were over 500 in 1904; iron and steel works, of which there are 7 large establishments, including the immense plant at Monterey; 90 smelters for the reduction of precious metals; tanneries, potteries, and factories for the manufacture of hats, paper, linen, hammocks, harness and saddles, matches, explosives, aerated waters, soap, furniture, chocolate and sweetmeats.

Other industrial establishments of importance include petroleum refineries, ship-yards, brick, stone and lime works, saddlery and harness factories, lithographing establishments, patent medicine works, chemical works, and copper smelters and refineries.

Modern smelters carefully extract this silver from the lead ore, thereby greatly impairing the durability and beauty of the metal.

Copper is scarcely less widely distributed than gold, but the production of it awaits smelters and better facilities for transportation.

There are many large smelters and reduction plants in the state, most of them at Denver, Leadville, Durango and Pueblo; at the latter place there are also blast-furnaces, a steel plant and rolling mills.

A law establishing an eighthour day for underground miners and smelter employees (1899) was unanimously voided by the state supreme court, but in 1902 the people amended the constitution and ordered the general assembly to re-enact the law for labourers in mines, smelters and dangerous employments.

Among the manufactures are zinc spelter-there are large smelters here-clay products (chiefly vitrified brick, sewer pipe and tile; the clay being obtained from a great underlying bed of shale), blasting powder, packinghouse products and planing-mill products.

This predominance was largely due to the smelting and refining industry, the smelters being chiefly in the rural districts.

Eight hours is the limit of a day's work in mines and smelters.

From 1876 to 1897 the total value of the output of the Galena field was between $25,000,000 and $26,000,000; but at present Kansas is far more important as a smelter than as a miner of zinc and lead, and in 1906 58% of all spelter produced in the United States came from smelters in Kansas.

Smelters and foundries are its principal manufacturing establishments.

In 1908, 618,806 short tons of ore were mined, producing, from the smelters on the ground, 19,710,103 lb of metallic copper.

There is a U.S. assayer's office here, and there are extensive shipyards, a large paper mill, iron works, and, just outside the city limits, the smelters of the American Smelters Securities Company, in connexion with which is one of the two plants in the United States for saving arsenic from smelter fumes.

The metal sinks through the ignited fuel, forming, in the hearth, a spongy mass or ball, which is lifted out by the smelters at the end of each operation, and carried to the forge hammer.

The former have a very extended application in many branches of industry, being used by both founders and smelters in the fusion of metals; in the concentration of poor metallic compounds by fusion into regulus; in the reduction of lead and tin ores; for refining copper and silver; and for making malleable iron by the puddling processes and welding.

The only sites currently exceeding the 2004 objective are near a small number of secondary non-ferrous metal smelters.

By the 19th century, it was suggested that the lamb represented purity, obviously a good selling point for the local tin smelters.

In addition, pollution from operating or abandoned industrial sites and smelters can find its way into the soil, resulting in soil contamination.

There are lead and zinc smelters, and a large vitrified brick and tile factory.