remelts

Liquefies once more

Remelts is the third-person singular of remelt, meaning to melt something again.

Metal that has solidified can be remelted for recycling or recasting: The foundry remelts scrap aluminum.

As a noun, remelts are materials that have been melted down a second time: The jewelry was made from remelts of old gold pieces.

process

reheats

Warms food again

fuses · thaws · cools · hardens · reharden · reprocess · recycle · batch · feedstock

metallurgy

foundry

Metal casting facility

casting · flux · slag · ladle · billet · alloying · forge · tongs · anvil · tempering

recycling

scrap

Discarded bit or tussle

repurpose · salvage · waste · materials · glass · plastics · aluminum · sustainability · upcycling · circular

glasswork

cullet

Recycled broken glass

  • batchQuantity produced together
  • gatherBring or come together
  • blowpipeBreath-propelled projectile tube

glory hole · kiln · frit · reforming · glassblower · furnace · silica

Opposites
phase transition direction

remeltssolidifies

Becomes hard or firm

freezes · hardens · sets · congeals · crystallizes

thermal process

remeltscools

Lowers in temperature

chills · refrigerates · quenches · tempers · anneals

process iteration

remeltsmelts

Changes to liquid state

Family

remelt, remelting, remelted

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G