to remelt
- verb
- /riːˈmɛlt/
:
re-fusionar
- After they were done, the silver wire was recovered, remelted, and returned to the treasury.
Examples
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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.
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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
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3.0
Make a solid become liquid by heating it
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7.3
To become liquid again after being solid or a gas
To melt solder again by heating to form or fix joints between electronic parts
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Etymology
Remelt comes from the prefix re- ('again') and melt ('to make liquid'), so it literally means 'melt again'. That's why when you heat metal, glass, or wax a second time you remelt it.