🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

重熔

Pronunciation / Transliteration: chóng róng

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Remelt/riːˈmɛlt/
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"废旧金属可以通过重熔来再次利用。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To melt something again, especially metal, glass, or plastic, in order to process or reshape it.

    "The factory collects scrap metal to remelt it into new components."
As noun
  1. 1

    The act or process of melting a material a second time.

    "Each remelt of the alloy improves its homogeneity and removes impurities."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the prefix re- (denoting repetition or back to a former state) combined with the verb melt, originating from Old English 'meltan'. It entered technical metallurgy and manufacturing vocabulary in the early industrial era to describe the process of liquefying previously solidified metals or materials.

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