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hydrometallurgy

hydrometallurgy noun: the field of extractive metallurgy involving the use of aqueous chemistry for the recovery of metals from ores, concentrates, and recycled or residual materials.

Noun

hydrometallurgy (uncountable)

  1. The field of extractive metallurgy involving the use of aqueous chemistry for the recovery of metals from ores, concentrates, and recycled or residual materials.

hydrometallurgy meaning in Tamil

hydrometallurgy in Tamil

நீர்ப் பகுப்பு உலோக இயல்

Origin of hydrometallurgy

From hydro- + metallurgy.

Words formed from hydrometallurgy

Questions about hydrometallurgy

What does hydrometallurgy mean?
Hydrometallurgy means the field of extractive metallurgy involving the use of aqueous chemistry for the recovery of metals from ores, concentrates, and recycled or residual materials.
What is hydrometallurgy in Tamil?
Hydrometallurgy in Tamil is நீர்ப் பகுப்பு உலோக இயல். See Hydrometallurgy meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is hydrometallurgy?
Hydrometallurgy is a noun.

Words near hydrometallurgy in the dictionary

  1. hydrometallations
  2. hydrometallurgical
  3. hydrometallurgically
  4. hydrometallurgist
  5. hydrometallurgists
  6. hydrometallurgy
  7. hydrometamorphism
  8. hydrometeor
  9. hydrometeorological
  10. hydrometeorologist
  11. hydrometeorologists

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hydrometallurgy (page history and authors); hydrometallurgy (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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