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Smelting, an Uncommon card
Smelting is a process of applying heat and a chemical reducing agent to an ore to extract a desired base metal product.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 73
- DEF
- 65
- Power
- 138
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 110,000
Power 138 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 70 % of WikiCards cards.
Smelting quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Smelting card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
It is a form of ______ metallurgy that is used to obtain many metals such as iron, copper, silver, tin, lead, and zinc.
Answer
extractive. It is a form of extractive metallurgy that is used to obtain many metals such as iron, copper, silver, tin, lead, and zinc. From the Smelting article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
File system. File system 82 · Lie algebra 79 · Analog-to-digital converter 76 · Smelting 73 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- It is a form of extractive metallurgy that is used to obtain many metals such as iron, copper, silver, tin, lead, and zinc.
- Smelting uses heat and a chemical reducing agent to decompose the ore, driving off other elements as gases or slag and leaving the metal behind.
- The reducing agent is commonly a fossil-fuel source of carbon, such as carbon monoxide from incomplete combustion of coke, or, in earlier times, of charcoal.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Smelting article was read about 110,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 73 and blocks with 65: each hit it takes is cut by 26 %.
How to get Smelting
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Smelting (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Alfred T. Palmer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
