Thomson process

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• Thomson, James

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• Acid process

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• Barrel process

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• Basic process

  ·add. ·- A Bessemer or open-hearth steel-making process in which a lining that is basic, or not sili...

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• Bell process

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• Bitumen process

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• Carbon process

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• Flotation process

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• Gayley process

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• Harvey process

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• Krupp process

  ·add. ·- A process practiced by Friedrich Krupp, Essen, Germany, for washing pig iron, differing fro...

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• Manhes process

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• Niepce's process

  ·add. ·- A process, now no longer used, invented by J. N. Niepce, a French chemist, in 1829. It depe...

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• Pattinson's process

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• Payne's process

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• Process plate

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• Thomas process

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• Triger process

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• Trustee process

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• Washoe process

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• Weldon's process

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• Bower-Barff process

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• Siemens-Martin process

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• Taylor-White process

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