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Aluminum smelters also produced record volumes during 2020, as did cement plants, with China’s production of each commodity accounting for nearly 60 percent of the global total.—Andrew S. Erickson, Foreign Affairs, 13 Apr. 2021 While some Arizona mines use an electrolytic chemical process to distill copper and some ship to a smelter in Miami-Globe, others ship to Mexico or beyond.—Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 19 Dec. 2024 Russian forces are bombing the steel smelters regularly.—Michael Robinson Chávez, NPR, 7 Dec. 2024 If copper is selling for $4 a pound, the smelter can buy the boards for $1 and make a tidy profit.—Vince Beiser, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for smelter
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