金きん属ぞく塊かい

noun

solid metal blank; regulus; matte; pig

Technical term in metallurgy and smelting for a solid mass of metal, often an intermediate product before further processing. Covers various forms: regulus (relatively pure metal), matte (sulfide mixture), and pig (crude ingot).

• 製せい錬れん所じょでは、溶よう鉱こう炉ろから取とり出だした金きん属ぞく塊かいをさらに精せい製せいする。

  At the smelter, the solid metal blank taken from the blast furnace is further refined.

• この金きん属ぞく塊かいは不ふ純じゅん物ぶつを多おおく含ふくむマットと呼よばれる中ちゅう間かん産さん物ぶつだ。

  This solid metal mass is an intermediate product called matte, which contains many impurities.