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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; the first successful method of making steel in quantity at low cost
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cyanide process
an industrial process for extracting gold and silver by treating ore with a sodium cyanide solution
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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
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fractional process, fractionation
a process that uses heat to separate a substance into its components
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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
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Solvay process
an industrial process for producing sodium carbonate from sodium chloride and ammonia and carbon dioxide
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destructive distillation
heating a solid substance in a closed container and collecting the volatile products
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fractional distillation
fractionation of a liquid by distillation
