We’ve been seeing an online education explosion over the last few months. From kindergarten through graduate school, students have been using their computers to learn. And we’re just learning that colleges from coast to coast will continue to teach classes online as the 2020-21 school year begins.

We just discovered a fun set of online quizzes about metallurgy, metal trivia, and precious metals. It comes from FunTrivia.com, and it is great.

Here are some of the free trivia quizzes that we enjoyed the most. You can find them all on FunTrivia.com.

Get ready to learn and have fun too.

In “What Is a Smelter” and other posts we have published in the past, we have explained what a smelter is and what a smelter does.

So what do smelters do? The quick answer is, smelters smelt things. In general, that means heating up piles of scrap and powder and chemicals that contain metal. Once that “stuff” reaches the melting point of the metals it contains, those metals melt, clump together, and can be separated from surrounding materials.

“Smelting” sounds like a form of melting . . . but it isn’t!

“Smelting” also sounds like going fishing for shiny little fish that are called smelts . . . but it isn’t that either!

So, What Is Smelting?

What You Need to Know about Modern Smelting and What We Do

As we wrote on this blog back on February 24, 2014, “Smelting has now evolved into a modern, sophisticated process that uses very advanced equipment to separate precious metals from a wide variety of compounds and chemicals, not only from rocks.”