beneficiation

Questions about beneficiation

What does beneficiation mean?

beneficiation means "crushing and separating ore into valuable substances or waste by any of a variety of techniques".

How many syllables are in beneficiation?

beneficiation has 7 syllables and divides as be-ne-fi-ci-a-ti-on under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for beneficiation?

Close synonyms include mineral extraction, mineral processing, mineral dressing, ore processing, ore dressing. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is beneficiation a common word?

beneficiation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.