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beneficiations

beneficiations is the plural of beneficiation.

Meaning of beneficiation

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

Questions about beneficiations

What is beneficiations the plural of?
Beneficiations is the plural of beneficiation.

Words near beneficiations in the dictionary

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

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