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 

• CYANIDE PROCESS (noun)

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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)