resmeltingn.
/ˌriːˈsmɛltɪŋ/, U.S. /riˈsmɛltɪŋ/ The action of smelting for a second or further time.
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1810 W. Davies Gen. View Agric. N. Wales i. 41 The slags are found not worth the re-smelting.
1875 E. C. Stedman Victorian Poets (1887) 453 That magic transmutation which alone justifies a resmelting of the antique.
1952 Times 31 Dec. 7/2 The scarcity of steel..was due to the sharp fall in supplies of scrap from Germany for resmelting into steel.
2002 Jrnl. Cultural Heritage 3 188/2 Modern resmelting of the Marsiliana slags was planned, but never carried out.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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