English Explanatory Dictionary

Hall-Héroult process

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

Hall-Héroult process the Hall-Héroult process

Etymology

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

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