verb
- to melt again, especially metal that has already been melted and solidified
Usage: technical
Examples
- The foundry will resmelt the defective castings to recover the metal.
- Workers had to resmelt the aluminum ingots due to contamination.
- The recycling plant resmelts old copper pipes into new products.
- They decided to resmelt the bronze sculpture that cracked during cooling.
- The steel mill can resmelt scrap metal to produce new alloys.
- Engineers resmelt the failed components to analyze their composition.