smelt
/smelt/
verb
extract (metal) from its ore by a process involving heating and melting.
We all know what melt is.
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smelt
/smelt/
verb
extract (metal) from its ore by a process involving heating and melting.
We all know what melt is.
Originally Posted by 44MAG#1
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All these years--- I'd always thought smelt was a little fish.
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Smelt as in I smelt something burning in the kitchen??
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I smelt something good cooking on the grill?? Maybe a little on the fishy side though.
Isn’t the rule that if you smelt it, you dealt it?
Smelting is a term of art when used in boolit casting.
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Nah,,, it's just from someone typing that has a lisp.
In school: We learn lessons, and are given tests.
In life: We are given tests, and learn lessons.
OK People. Enough of this idle chit-chat.
This ain't your Grandma's sewing circle.
EVERYONE!
Back to your oars. The Captain wants to waterski.
This has been argued here many times.
I guess it partly depends on how you define “ore” ;^]
I prefer to call separating the metals I get from the stuff I don’t want “processing”, eventually ending up with casting alloy. That gets me around the fine points of whether it meets the formal definition of smelting.
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To me smelting is a process done to clean the alloy/lead so it can be cast ingots. While it's not from ore it still done for cleaning and refining.
Melting is just that. You melt your lead/alloy to cast bullets.
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refine
verb
re·fine ri-ˈfīn
refined; refining
transitive verb
1
: to free (something, such as metal, sugar, or oil) from impurities or unwanted material
I mine bullet scrap from our berm at the club I belong to. Therefore, the scrap is the ore that has been mined. So, if the scrap is the ore, then I am smelting.
"I'm Smelting, I'm Smelting.
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Or are you melting, fluxing and refining to cleanse the dirty metal already smelted from it's parent ore so you can cast bullets with it?I mine bullet scrap from our berm at the club I belong to. Therefore, the scrap is the ore that has been mined. So, if the scrap is the ore, then I am smelting.
"I'm Smelting, I'm Smelting.
iitc a smelt is a salt water fish - smelting is extracting metal from ore as already stated -
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Smelting takes place ONLY when extracting lead from the original ore.
Since range scrap has already been smelted, the process then becomes simply melting.
That was my first thoughts too! I know that by definition "smelting" is not the correct term for what we do with scrap lead but its the term that I use. I expect that most casters know what I'm talking about when I use it.
"know
/nō/
verb
be aware of through observation, inquiry, or information.
un·der·stand
/ˌəndərˈstand/
verb
perceive the intended meaning of (words, a language, or a speaker)."
I understand/know what is meant but knowing/understanding may be a different thing because that requires a working knowledge/understanding of the speaker or typist mind.
Last edited by 44MAG#1; 01-21-2023 at 10:04 AM.
term of art
�� High School Level
noun
a word or phrase that has a specific or precise meaning within a given discipline or field and might have a different meaning in common usage:
Set is a term of art used by mathematicians, and burden of proof is a term of art used by lawyers.
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One day it was so hot I thought I was going to melt. I was sweating so much, my friends told me I smelt.
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