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A kind of furnace used in refining, to separate the metal from cinders and other foreign matter.
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A pneumatic box or pan used in refining sugar.
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The art of working metals, comprehending the whole process of separating them from other matters in the ore, smelting, refining, and parting them; sometimes, in a narrower sense, only the process of extracting metals from their ores.
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The act or process of refining gold or silver, etc., in a cupel.
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The act of refining, or the state of being refined; as, the refinement or metals; refinement of ideas.
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The building and apparatus for refining or purifying, esp. metals and sugar.
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A process for refining tin by dropping it through the air while melted.
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of Refine
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The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement.
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The act of, or any labor or means employed for, training, disciplining, or refining the moral and intellectual nature of man; as, the culture of the mind.
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To melt or fuse, as, ore, for the purpose of separating and refining the metal; hence, to reduce; to refine; to flux or scorify; as, to smelt tin.
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The operation of refining gold or silver in a test, or cupel; cupellation.
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The process of fining or refining; clarification; also (Metal.), the conversion of cast iron into suitable for puddling, in a hearth or charcoal fire.
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Molasses; sometimes, specifically, the molasses which drains from the sugar-refining molds, and which is also called sugarhouse molasses.
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A trade name applied somewhat indefinitely to some of the volatile products obtained in refining crude petroleum. It is a complex and variable mixture of several hydrocarbons, generally boils below 170ยก Fahr., and is more inflammable than safe kerosene. It is used as a solvent, as a carburetant for air gas, and for illumination in special lamps.
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A shallow porous cup, used in refining precious metals, commonly made of bone ashes (phosphate of lime).
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The brightening of a metal in the crucible when it becomes pure, as in certain refining processes.
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