Meaning | A systematic series of mechanical or chemical operations that produce or manufacture something. |
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Narrower | Acheson process | An industrial process for making graphite by heating a mixture of coke and clay |
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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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