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smelting

use of heat and a reducing agent to purify metal from ore
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smelting

Summary

smelting ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,533 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • smelting is a type of refining[2].
  • smelting is a type of reduction[3].
  • smelting's Commons category is recorded as Smelting[4].
  • smelting's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Smelting[5].
  • smelting's product or material produced is recorded as metal[6].
  • smelting's uses is recorded as ore[7].
  • smelting's uses is recorded as reducing agent[8].
  • smelting's uses is recorded as flux[9].
  • smelting's studied by is recorded as pyrometallurgy[10].
  • smelting's by-product is recorded as slag[11].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include refining[2] and reduction[3].

Why It Matters

smelting ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,533 views/month).[1] smelting has Wikipedia articles in 17 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[12] smelting is known by 13 alternative names across languages and contexts.[13]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [13] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 1d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Product → —
    Uses → ore, reducing agent, flux
    Subclass of → refining, reduction
    Aliases → —
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 15072, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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