to remelt

Examples

• All

• Saturn collects damaged bumpers from repair shops and transports them to a central processing facility where they are cleaned, ground up, and remelted to produce plastic pellets (the standard form of plastic from which many products can be made).

  Academic text (1997)

• "And the collider is able to remelt that field."

  Fiction book (1999)

• To achieve a homogeneous distribution of elements in the alloys, each alloy was remelted five times, flipped over for each melt, and kept in a liquid state for about 2 minutes during each melting process.

  Academic text (2018)

• The scraped-off wax can be remelted and used again.

• To remelt the wax, you can use an iron, a hot palette knife, a heat gun from a hardware store, or wood-burning tools.

Synonyms

M

to melt down

vsto remelt

28 3.0

Make a solid become liquid by heating it

is about reheating something that had already solidified not the first change to liquid

R

to reliquefy

vsto remelt

• Specialized

1 7.3

To become liquid again after being solid or a gas

focuses on reheating previously liquid solids rather than any liquefaction process

R

to reflow

vsto remelt

• Specialized

1 7.9

To melt solder again by heating to form or fix joints between electronic parts

is used for heating many different solids not only in electronics

Antonyms

S

to solidify

54 4.4

To change from a liquid or gas into a hard state as it cools

How Melted

to liquefy

• Specialized

12 4.4

to remelt

1 5.3

to soften

37 1.3

to warm

459 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology