cyanide process

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   an industrial process for extracting gold and silver by treating ore with a sodium cyanide solution

   Broaderindustrial process

Questions about cyanide process

What does cyanide process mean?

cyanide process means "an industrial process for extracting gold and silver by treating ore with a sodium cyanide solution".

Is cyanide process a common word?

cyanide process 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.