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- adjective metallurgy Not
smelted ; not having been subjected to asmelting process; still in the state of being anunrefined ore .
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Examples
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“Oh, I know,” she said, in an accent that mixed New York, Georgia, and London in one strange farrago of unsmelted phonemes.
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That to change the first words, which rose unsmelted
On Pickiness 1996
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Their implements consisted of polished stone, occasionally of unsmelted copper, and in Mexico and Peru, of bronze.
Early European History Hutton Webster
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The elegant filigree-work of West End luxury may here be seen unsmelted, as it were, and in the ore.
Fighting the Flames 1859
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Iron, steel, glass, and silk were not used in the New World before 1492 (except for occasional use of unsmelted meteoric iron).
Latest Articles mrm.org 2009
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