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INDUSTRIAL PROCESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A systematic series of mechanical or chemical operations that produce or manufacture something
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("industrial process" is a kind of...):
physical process; process (a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "industrial process"):
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-Bosch process; Haber 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)
