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beneficiation

beneficiation noun: the reduction in size of particles of ore (or similar physical processing) before further processing to recover the metal.

Noun

beneficiation (countable and uncountable, plural beneficiations)

  1. The reduction in size of particles of ore (or similar physical processing) before further processing to recover the metal.
    • The beryl is cobbed out by hand, since no method for successful beneficiation has been developed and applied.1968, National Research Council (U.S.). Materials Advisory Board. Committee on Technical Aspects of Critical and Strategic Materials, Trends in Usage of Beryllium and Beryllium Oxide, page 2
    • Beneficiation of contaminated material makes up a high portion of refractory recycling costs, underscoring the importance of keeping the material clean on tearout.2012, J.P. Bennett, K.-S. Kwong, “Industrial Applications for Spent Refractory Materials”, in S. K. Sundaram, Dane R. Spearing, John D. Vienna, editor, Environmental Issues and Waste Management...

beneficiation meaning in Tamil

beneficiation in Tamil

மிகச் செய்தல், அடர்ப்பித்தல்

Forms of beneficiation

pluralbeneficiations

Words that rhyme with beneficiation

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Questions about beneficiation

What does beneficiation mean?
Beneficiation means the reduction in size of particles of ore (or similar physical processing) before further processing to recover the metal.
What is beneficiation in Tamil?
Beneficiation in Tamil is மிகச் செய்தல், அடர்ப்பித்தல். See Beneficiation meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is beneficiation?
Beneficiation is a noun.
What is the plural of beneficiation?
The plural of beneficiation is beneficiations.

Words near beneficiation in the dictionary

  1. beneficiaryships
  2. beneficiate
  3. beneficiated
  4. beneficiates
  5. beneficiating
  6. beneficiation
  7. beneficiations
  8. beneficience
  9. beneficient
  10. beneficing
  11. beneficious

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Adapted from Wiktionary: beneficiation (page history and authors); beneficiation (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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