industrial process
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Noun 1. [画像:industrial process - a systematic series of mechanical or chemical operations that produce or manufacture something]industrial process - a systematic series of mechanical or chemical operations that produce or manufacture something
physical process, process - a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states; "events now in process"; "the process of calcification begins later for boys than for girls"
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; the first successful method of making steel in quantity at low cost
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
fractional process, fractionation - a process that uses heat to separate a substance into its components
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
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