a. & n. from smelt.

a furnace in which ores are smelted or reduced.

verb. Present participle of smelt.

noun. The process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore.

"Iyer Sundar Raj, a spokesman for the Tuticorin smelter, told Dow Jones Newswires that since smelting is a process-based industry, shutting down of operations will take time."

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