What is another word for metallurgic?

Pronunciation: [mɛtɐlˈɜːd͡ʒɪk] (IPA)

The word "metallurgic" refers to the process of extracting metals from ores and alloys. Synonyms for the term include "metalworking", "smelting", "refining", and "extractive metallurgy". Metalworking encompasses the entire process of working with metals, from their extraction to their refinement and shaping into finished products. Smelting is the process of extracting metals from ores by heating them to high temperatures, while refining involves further processing to remove impurities. Extractive metallurgy refers specifically to the scientific and engineering processes involved in the extraction of metals from ores. Whatever synonym is used, the term refers to the science, technology, and art of working with metals.

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Usage examples for Metallurgic

An examination of the nature of the gases issuing from the chimneys of iron-foundries, might perhaps assist in clearing up this point; and, in fact, if such enquiries were also instituted upon the various products of all furnaces, we might expect the elucidation of many points in the economy of the metallurgic art.
"On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures"
Charles Babbage
When I was tempted to promise this subject for your attention this evening, it was founded upon a promise, and a full intent of performing that promise, on the part of my friend Deville, of Paris, to come here to shew before you a phenomenon in metallurgic chemistry not common.
"The Chemical History Of A Candle"
Michael Faraday
It is only at the first view that the knowledge of certain metallurgic processes, and the trade and power that such knowledge developes, are presumptions in favour of a certain degree of antiquity in the occupancy of our island on the parts of its islanders; and it is only by forgetting the insular character of Great Britain that we can allow ourselves to suppose that, though our early arts tell us nothing about our first introduction, they at any rate prove that it was no recent event.
"The Ethnology of the British Islands"
Robert Gordon Latham

Related words: steel processing, steel production, processing steel, steel company, industrial process, steel mill, process for manufacturing steel, steel production process, industrial process for steel

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