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industrial process
:
NOUN
process
industrial process
a systematic series of
mechanical
or
chemical operations
that
produce
or manufacture something
English
>
industrial process
: 1 sense
> noun 1, process
Meaning
A systematic series of
mechanical
or
chemical operations
that
produce
or manufacture something.
Narrower
Acheson process
An
industrial process
for
making
graphite
by
heating
a
mixture
of
coke
and
clay
Bessemer process
An
industrial process
for
making
steel
using a
Bessemer converter
to blast air through
molten
iron
and
thus
burning the
excess
carbon
and
impurities
Haber process
,
Haber-Bosch process
An
industrial process
for
producing
ammonia
from
nitrogen
and
hydrogen
by
combining
them under high
pressure
in the
presence
of an
iron
catalyst
Solvay process
An
industrial process
for
producing
sodium carbonate
from
sodium chloride
and
ammonia
and
carbon dioxide
cyanide process
An
industrial process
for
extracting
gold
and
silver
by
treating
ore
with a
sodium cyanide
solution
electrostatic precipitation
A process that removes suspended dust particles from a gas by applying a high voltage
electrostatic charge
to the particles and collecting them on charged plates
fractionation
,
fractional process
A process that uses
heat
to
separate
a substance into its components
Broader
process
,
physical process
A
sustained
phenomenon
or one
marked
by
gradual
changes
through a series of
states
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