How to Use smelter in a Sentence

smelter

noun
  • Most of the on-site waste was sealed in a landfill next to the smelter building along Lake George.
    Michael Hawthorne, chicagotribune.com, 8 May 2018
  • In another, men make paving stones with slag from the lead smelters.
    National Geographic, 31 May 2016
  • The firm owns coal and manganese mines as well as aluminum smelters in South Africa.
    Gabriele Steinhauser, WSJ, 14 Feb. 2019
  • The aluminum smelter was opened 10 years later to feed off the plant’s power.
    Thomas Grove, WSJ, 2 July 2018
  • The number of aluminum smelters in the United States has fallen from 23 to five in that time.
    chicagotribune.com, 8 May 2017
  • But the site under the Hoan Bridge has proven most popular with smelters.
    Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 5 Mar. 2023
  • Then, six years ago, a towering smelter rose next to his home.
    Peter S. Goodman Ulet Ifansasti, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Zhu, a 44-year-old smelter at the city's state-run iron and steel works, is well outside the mainstream in China.
    Dake Kang, Star Tribune, 23 Jan. 2021
  • Drawn by that pitch, aluminum smelters began flocking to the island in the 1990s.
    Justin Worland/reykjavik, Time, 25 July 2017
  • Caliche, sage, sulphur from the smelter, wood fires from Mexican shacks by the Rio Grande.
    Longreads, 9 Jan. 2016
  • The smelter featured more than a dozen potrooms, each a few hundred yards long.
    Mark Dent, WIRED, 11 July 2019
  • Trail, British Columbia, is home to one of the world’s largest lead and zinc smelters and refineries.
    Becky Kramer, The Seattle Times, 7 May 2018
  • The company then sells its output to smelters to be melted down and reused.
    Robert Hackett, Fortune, 6 Sep. 2017
  • On the one hand, the drought had caused the earth to dry up and crack; on the other, the smelters had caused an eternal night, blocking the sun with smoke and pollution.
    Hazlitt, 15 Sep. 2022
  • The conflict over the smelter re-design has shaken unions across Codelco.
    Bloomberg.com, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Begley and her husband bought their home in 2001, when the zinc smelter was running.
    Hannah Rappleye, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2021
  • Across the road in Rockdale, at the old Alcoa smelter site, stands a mine owned by Bitdeer of Singapore.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 11 Feb. 2022
  • In 1973, a fire broke out at Bunker Hill and destroyed part of the baghouse—the main pollution-control system for the lead smelter.
    Sena Christian, Newsweek, 12 June 2016
  • The smelter stands next to the town of Hayden, which has a population of about 600 people, and near the smaller town of Winkelman.
    Ian James, azcentral, 19 Mar. 2020
  • The ingots that emerged from the smelter were more uniform, stronger, and less brittle–the best steel that Europe, and perhaps the world, had ever seen.
    Jonathan Schifman, Popular Mechanics, 9 July 2018
  • The nearby town of Redruth served as the beating heart of the copper business where smelters bid for copper ore.
    Corinne Fowler / Made By History, TIME, 17 June 2024
  • What’s worse, only one of those smelters makes the high-grade stuff that the U.S. defense industry needs to make fighter jets.
    David Meyer, Fortune, 2 Mar. 2018
  • Next it would be trucked out to a smelter, likely in another country.
    Douglas Main, National Geographic, 25 Apr. 2019
  • The city says that stabilized the aquifer, which began a robust recovery after the smelter shut down in the 1980s.
    oregonlive, 7 Nov. 2021
  • The tariffs raise prices for aluminum, which helps smelters, the companies that make raw aluminum here.
    New York Times, 4 July 2018
  • For the next year and a half, the smelter continued to operate, and dust polluted with heavy metals rained down on the area.
    Sena Christian, Newsweek, 12 June 2016
  • My grandfather was born in New Mexico to a father who worked at a smelter.
    Perla Trevizo, ProPublica, 10 Nov. 2011
  • Work at the Codelco Ventanas copper smelter in Ventanas, Chile.
    Ryan Dube, WSJ, 20 Dec. 2021
  • The group also went to the town of La Oroya, which had a smelter that polluted the air for decades and resulted in lead poisoning among the majority of the population.
    Lisa Thorn, The Mercury News, 8 Sep. 2024
  • An aluminum smelter project with a capacity of 1.5 to 2 million tons per year will be constructed in the industrial park in three phases.
    Yessar Rosendar, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2024

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