Lead smelting
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lead-smelting-187-4086329
title:
Lead smelting
text:
Plants for the production of lead are generally referred to as lead smelters. Primary lead production begins with sintering. Concentrated lead ore is fed into a sintering machine with iron, silica, limestone fluxes, coke, soda ash, pyrite, zinc, caustics or pollution control particulates. Smelting uses suitable reducing substances that will combine with those oxidizing elements to free the metal. Reduction is the final, high-temperature step in smelting. It is here that the oxide becomes the ele
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Process of refining lead metal
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_smelting
date created:
2012-11-26T04:33:48Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T08:56:12Z
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