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Molten copper pours from a large industrial furnace into rectangular molds at a copper smelting facility, with glowing metal and industrial equipment visible. Electrolytic smelting
Follow copper from green rock in open-pit mines to smelting, conversion, and refining into anode plates
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James Watt as a young man, c1769. Scottish engineer and instrument maker. Invented the modern steam engine which became the main source of power in Britain's textile mills. His engine had a separate condenser in which steam from the cylinder; (see notes)
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Follow copper from green rock in open-pit mines to smelting, conversion, and refining into anode plates
Open-pit mining, smelting, and refining of copper in Utah.
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molten copper
Molten copper being made into plates.
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Electrolytic smelting
Part of a modern potline based on the electrolytic Hall-Héroult smelting process.
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