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Key Stage 3

Meaning

Smelting is a process for extracting metals by heating and melting a mineral with carbon to cause a displacement reaction.

About Smelting

Any metal below Carbon on the Reactivity Series can be extracted from its by smelting with Carbon.
When the ore is melted it Carbon is added and a displacement reaction happens where the Carbon replaces the metal in the mineral.