I believe you mean melted. Smelting is a process where you use heat and various flux components to cause chemical changes in the molten metals, like causing base metals to oxidize and end up in the slag. Melting is simply using heat to cause solid metal to become molten.Just saw this thread and thought I’d show off a bit….even though these came from fingers (low hanging fruit), still a thrill every time it drops, gets washed, dried, and smelted.
An interesting language information:I believe you mean melted. Smelting is a process where you use heat and various flux components to cause chemical changes in the molten metals, like causing base metals to oxidize and end up in the slag. Melting is simply using heat to cause solid metal to become molten.
Dave
An interesting language information:
In the Nordic region smelting means meIting. What it is in other languages I don't know.
So it may be a language thing.
Just another useless piece of information
Per-Ove
In higher end tech-scientific communication, it is good to know how to name things correctly. I also struggle a lot sometimes to squeeze something meaningful from my mind, when answering here for example Nothing terribly important, but good to have settled and refined when talking basically lower or higher end science here
And sometimes I have hard time to understand some words. This could lead to confusion for somebody with even bigger language barrier than I have.
Languages are strange many times in many ways
That is of course true."In higher end tech-scientific communication, it is good to know how to name things correctly."
Correct terminology is extremely Important. Not just in technology and scientific endeavors, but, also in the trades. In patent law, it is described as the "language of the art" which is used when referencing the patent's application art and also when describing the "principals and practices" currently used by the discipline's practitioners.
James
It's not a useless piece of information at all. When I first joined the forum, my years in the jewelry business taught me that carat was used as a weight of gemstones like diamonds, while karat was used to denote the purity of a gold alloy. Then I learned that in some countries, carat was used in the same way as karat.An interesting language information:
In the Nordic region smelting means meIting. What it is in other languages I don't know.
So it may be a language thing.
Just another useless piece of information
Per-Ove
A lack of precision on my side. Useless with respect to refining.It's not a useless piece of information at all. When I first joined the forum, my years in the jewelry business taught me that carat was used as a weight of gemstones like diamonds, while karat was used to denote the purity of a gold alloy. Then I learned that in some countries, carat was used in the same way as karat.
So you have taught me that in some places, smelting is the correct terms for melting a metal. Thank you for sharing that.
Dave
We had as a country a quite long mining history, and the word "mine" is called "bana/banya". But in middleage and more ancient times, the term "bana/banya" also included prospecting, digging place, regular mine, shaft and also placer, smelting house or assayers office to this date, numerous places are locally called "bana" and nobody knows exactly why - there are no workings, no gold, no ore, anything...
Old mining folks were strange here
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