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CYANIDE PROCESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cyanide process mean?
• CYANIDE PROCESS (noun)
The noun CYANIDE PROCESS has 1 sense:
1. an industrial process for extracting gold and silver by treating ore with a sodium cyanide solution
Familiarity information: CYANIDE PROCESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An industrial process for extracting gold and silver by treating ore with a sodium cyanide solution
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("cyanide process" is a kind of...):
industrial process (a systematic series of mechanical or chemical operations that produce or manufacture something)
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