extractive metallurgy

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noun

the technology of extracting metal from ore.

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How to use extractive metallurgy in a sentence

By contrast, petroleum engineering and metallurgy degrees promise median earnings of $120,000 and $80,000.
No, Women Don’t Make Less Money Than Men|Christina Hoff Sommers|February 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Not many aspiring early childhood educators would change course once they learn they can earn more in metallurgy or mining.
No, Women Don’t Make Less Money Than Men|Christina Hoff Sommers|February 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But it was not in its direct application to metallurgy that coal was destined to produce its most amazing effects.
History of the English People, Volume VIII (of 8)|John Richard Green
He had gone to a technological institute, where he had made himself master of the theory and practice of metallurgy.
Tales of Fantasy and Fact|Brander Matthews

In all other parts Teutsch reigns; and Schlesien is a green abundant Country; full of metallurgy, damask-weaving, grain-husbandry.
History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XII. (of XXI.)|Thomas Carlyle
This treated of the modern subjects of geology, metallurgy, and mineralogy, as well as the chemistry of minerals.
Catholic Churchmen in Science|James J. Walsh
These results in reference to extractive, etc., reveal nothing that has not been known before.
Scientific American Supplement, Vol. XXI., No. 531, March 6, 1886|Various