6.6.2 Working with minerals

Use this domain for words related to working with minerals.

OMC Codes: 
320 Processing of Basic Materials
310 Exploitative Activities
306 Jewelry Manufacture
  • What words refer to working with minerals?
    mineral, miner

    • 6.6.2.1 Mining

    Use this domain for words related to mining.

    Related domains: 
    7.8.6 Dig
    1.2.1.5 Underground
    OMC Codes: 
    316 Mining and Quarrying
    317 Special Deposits
  • What words refer to digging minerals out of the ground?
    mine (v), quarry (v)
  • What words refer to a place where minerals are mined?
    mine (n), gold mine, coal mine, strip mine, quarry (n), mother lode, deposit, vein, coalfield
  • What are the parts of a mine?
    mine shaft, tailings, entrance, head
  • What words refer to looking for minerals?
    prospecting, pan for gold
  • What words refer to finding minerals?
    eureka, strike it rich
  • What words refer to a person who mines?
    miner, prospector
  • What tools and machines are used in mining?
    pan, sluice, Geiger counter, metal detector, pick, rock hammer

    • 6.6.2.2 Smelting

    Use this domain for words related to smelting--melting rocks to get metal out of them.

    OMC Codes: 
    325 Metallurgy
    327 Iron and Steel Industry
  • What words refer to melting rocks to get metal out of them?
    smelt (metal ore), melt
  • What words refer to rocks that have metal in them?
    ore
  • What tools and equipment are used to get metal out of rocks?
    furnace, forge, crucible
  • What words refer to the material left over after metal has been taken out of rocks?
    slag, slagheap, dross

    • 6.6.2.3 Working with metal

    Use this domain for words related to working with metal. Answer each question below for each kind of smith.

    OMC Codes: 
    326 Smiths and Their Crafts
    328 Nonferrous Metal Industries
    Louw Nida Codes: 
    7G Miscellaneous Constructions
  • What is a person called who works with metal?
    smith, blacksmith (iron), goldsmith, silversmith, tinsmith, tinker, jeweler, welder
  • What does a blacksmith do?
    work with (iron), forge, cast, shape, mold, heat, melt, weld, solder, hammer, work the bellows, hit with hammer, beat, plate
  • What raw materials does a blacksmith use?
    ore, iron, steel, metal, solder, scrap metal
  • What does a blacksmith make?
    metal work, jewelry
  • What tools does a blacksmith use?
    hammer, anvil, tongs, forge, furnace, bellows
  • What words refer to a place where people work with metal?
    blacksmith shop, foundry, steelworks
  • What words refer to a piece of metal?
    nugget, bar, rod, ingot, wire

    • 6.6.2.4 Working with clay

    Use this domain for words related to working with clay.

    OMC Codes: 
    323 Ceramic Technology
    Ceramic Industries
    Louw Nida Codes: 
    7G Miscellaneous Constructions
  • What does a potter do with clay?
    mold, shape, form, throw a pot,
  • What words refer to heating clay to make it hard?
    fire a pot,
  • What is a person called who works with clay?
    potter
  • What words refer to clay?
    clay, lump of clay
  • What things are made out of clay?
    ceramics, pottery, clay pot, clay pipe, clay idol, brick, tile
  • What tools are used to work with clay?
    potter's wheel, sponge, kiln, brick form, form for tile, mold
  • Where does a potter work?
    workshop, potter's field

    • 6.6.2.5 Working with glass

    Use this domain for words related to working with glass.

    OMC Codes: 
    323 Ceramic Technology
    Ceramic Industries
    Louw Nida Codes: 
    7G Miscellaneous Constructions
  • What does the potter do with the glass?
    blow, mold, shape, form, anneal
  • What is a person called who works with glass?
    glass blower
  • What words are used to refer to the glass?
    glass, crystal
  • What things are made out of glass?
    drinking glass, window, mirror, glasses, lens
  • What tools are used to work with glass?
    furnace, pipe

    • 6.6.2.6 Working with oil and gas

    Use this domain for words related to working with oil and gas.

    Related domains: 
    1.2.3.2 Oil
    1.2.3.3 Gas
    OMC Codes: 
    315 Oil and Gas Wells
  • What words refer to working with oil and gas?
    petroleum industry, oil company
  • What words refer to drilling for oil and gas?
    drill for oil, extract, strike oil, gusher
  • What words refer to an oil or gas well?
    oil well, gas well, oil field
  • What words refer to refining oil?
    refine
  • What tools and machines are used for working with oil and gas?
    oil rig, oil platform, refinery
  • What tools and machines are used for moving oil and gas?
    pipeline, pump, oil tanker, tank, tanker truck

    • 6.6.2.7 Working with stone

    Use this domain for words related to working with stone.

    Related domains: 
    1.2.2.2 Rock
    OMC Codes: 
    324 Lithic Industries
    Stone Industry
  • What words refer to working with stone?
    masonry, sculpture, carve
  • What words refer to a person who works with stone?
    stonemason, sculptor, stone cutter
  • What materials does a stonemason work with?
    stone, marble
  • What tools does a stonemason work with?
    hammer, chisel
  • What words refer to a place where stone is dug out of the ground?
    quarry

    • 6.6.2.8 Working with bricks

    Use this domain for words related to working with bricks.

    OMC Codes: 
    333 Masonry
  • What words refer to working with bricks?
    brickwork, lay bricks
  • What words refer to a person who works with bricks?
    mason, bricklayer
  • What materials does a bricklayer work with?
    cement, mortar

    • 6.6.2.9 Working with chemicals

    Use this domain for words related to working with chemicals.

    OMC Codes: 
    303 Manufacturing of Toilet Accessories
    380 Chemical Industries
    381 Chemical Engineering
    382 Petroleum and Coal Products Industries
    383 Rubber Industry
    384 Synthetics Industry
    385 Industrial Chemicals
    386 Paint and Dye Manufacture
    387 Fertilizer Industry
    388 Soap and Allied Products
    389 Manufacture of Explosives
    549 Art and Recreational Supplies Industries
    719 Munitions Industries
  • What words refer to working with chemicals?
    chemistry
  • What words refer to a person who works with chemicals?
    chemist, alchemist
  • What tools are used to work with chemicals?
    test tube, beaker, Bunsen burner, periodic table, formula, catalyst
  • What words refer to elements?
    atom, atomic, element, electron, neutron, nuclear, proton
  • What words refer to chemicals?
    chemical, compound, molecule, molecular, radical, valence
  • What types of chemicals are there?
    acid, base, alkali, biochemical, organic, inorganic, synthetic, plastic
  • What are the names of specific chemicals?
    acetate, alcohol, amino, ammonia, arsenic, asbestos, bicarbonate, butane, camphor, carbohydrate, chloride, chlorine, cleaner, cleanser, colloidal, creosote, cyanide, detergent, diesel, dioxide, emulsion, enamel, ethane, ethanol, ether, fluoride, fluorite, fuel, gas, gel, helium, hydrogen, iodine, leaven, hydrocarbon, hydrochloric, gasohol, gasoline, glycerin, kerosene, lacquer, latex, lithium, lubricant, methane, neon, nitrogen, nylon, oil, oxide, oxygen, ozone, paraffin, peroxide, phosgene, petrochemical, petrol, petrolatum, petroleum, polyester, protein, rayon, resin, rosin, yeast, silicate, silicon, sodium, solution, sol, solvent, spar, sulfuric, tallow, tannin, tartar, thinner, turpentine, varnish, vitriol, water

    • 6.6.2.9.1 Explode

    Use this domain for words related to bombs or chemicals exploding.

  • What words refer to bombs or chemicals exploding?
    explode, blow up, detonate