explain about smelting process
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The chemical reduction of a metal from its ore by a process usually involving fusion, so that earthy and other impurities separate as lighter and more fusible slags and can readily be removed from the reduced metal
. An example is the reduction of iron ore (iron oxide) by coke in a blast furnace to produce pig iron.
Smelting may also involve preliminary treatment of ore, such as by calcination and further refining processes, before the metal is fit for a particular industrial use.
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Smelting is a process of applying heat to ore in order to extract a base metal. ... Smelting uses heat and a chemical reducing agent to decompose the ore, driving off other elements as gases or slag and leaving the metal base behind.
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