Solvay process

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A widely used industrial process for the production of sodium carbonate.

Word forms

Solvay process the Solvay process Solvay processes

Etymology

Developed in its modern form by the Belgian chemist Ernest Solvay during the 1860s.

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