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hot metal

Industrial furnace product term, genuine trade vocabulary

Any molten metal other than mercury, e.g. iron and steel, lead, tin, aluminium, copper, silver, gold, platinum, etc. Usually used in industry to refer to the product of melting furnaces.

Furnaces 4 and 5 can each melt and tap about 6 tonnes of hot metal.

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