industrial process

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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