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Hall-Héroult process

Hall-Héroult process proper noun: a major industrial process for smelting aluminium, by dissolving alumina in molten cryolite and then performing electrolysis.

Proper noun

the Hall-Héroult process

  1. A major industrial process for smelting aluminium, by dissolving alumina in molten cryolite and then performing electrolysis.

Origin of Hall-Héroult process

Named after the American chemist Charles Martin Hall and the Frenchman Paul Héroult, who invented it independently in 1886.

Questions about Hall-Héroult process

What does Hall-Héroult process mean?
Hall-Héroult process means a major industrial process for smelting aluminium, by dissolving alumina in molten cryolite and then performing electrolysis.
What part of speech is Hall-Héroult process?
Hall-Héroult process is a proper noun.

Words near Hall-Héroult process in the dictionary

  1. Hall voltage
  2. Hall voltages
  3. Hall's honeysuckle
  4. Hall's Japanese honeysuckle
  5. Hall's panicgrass
  6. Hall-Héroult process
  7. hall-mark
  8. hall-marks
  9. hall-of-famer
  10. hall-of-famers
  11. Hall-Petch equation

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