Definition, Meaning & Anagrams | English word ORE
ORE
Definitions of ORE
- Rock or other material that contains valuable or utilitarian materials; primarily a rock containing metals or gems for which it is typically mined and processed.
- A suburban area , formerly a village, in in Hastings, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ8311).
- (sports) Abbreviation of Oregon.
Number of letters
3
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using ORE in a Sentence
- Historically, the area was known for forestry and the mining of ore deposits, but tourism has now become the primary industry, accounting for around 300,000 jobs.
- The country's natural resources include coal, iron ore, bauxite, manganese, nickel, clay, gypsum, salt, sand, timber and hydropower.
- Agricola recorded that, according to the legends of that profession, these mining spirits acted as miming and laughing pranksters who sometimes threw pebbles at miners, but could also reward them by depositing a rich vein of silver ore.
- Graphite occurs naturally in ores that can be classified into one of two categories either amorphous (microcrystalline) or crystalline (flake or lump/chip) which is determined by the ore morphology, crystallinity, and grain size.
- Hematite varieties include kidney ore, martite (pseudomorphs after magnetite), iron rose and specularite (specular hematite).
- One krona is subdivided into 100 öre (singular; plural öre or ören, where the former is always used after a cardinal number, hence "50 öre", but otherwise the latter is often preferred in contemporary speech).
- Historically, three railways were built in Liberia to export ore from mines; they were damaged during the civil wars.
- Located on the shores of Lake Superior, Marquette is a major port known primarily for shipping iron ore from the Marquette Iron Range.
- Ore is natural rock or sediment that contains one or more valuable minerals concentrated above background levels, typically containing metals, that can be mined, treated and sold at a profit.
- It was discovered in 1803 by William Hyde Wollaston in one such ore, and named for the rose color of one of its chlorine compounds.
- Smelting is a process of applying heat and a chemical reducing agent to an ore to extract a desired base metal product.
- Naturally occurring technetium is a spontaneous fission product in uranium ore and thorium ore (the most common source), or the product of neutron capture in molybdenum ores.
- After he developed an original refining process, Belgian industrialist Jean-Jacques Dony received a decree from the Napoleonic authorities in 1806, allowing him to mine the zinc ore deposit at La Vieille Montagne near Liège.
- Other commercial mineral deposits include coal, asbestos, copper, nickel, gold, platinum and iron ore.
- Zinc is refined by froth flotation of the ore, roasting, and final extraction using electricity (electrowinning).
- January 5 – Tasman Bridge disaster: The Tasman Bridge in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, is struck by the bulk ore carrier , causing a partial collapse resulting in 12 deaths.
- The Colorado Mineral Belt (CMB) is an area of ore deposits from the La Plata Mountains in Southwestern Colorado to near the middle of the state at Boulder, Colorado, and from which over 25 million troy ounces (778 t) of gold were extracted beginning in 1858.
- The Argo Tunnel drained and provided access to many lodes of ore between Idaho Springs and Central City.
- In the south of Tunisia, there is a narrow gauge railway called the Sfax-Gafsa Railway which delivers phosphates and iron ore to the harbour at Sfax.
- A mixture of the ore concentrate and water, called slurry, is pumped to its destination and the water is filtered out.
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