electrostatic precipitation

1. 1.

   a process that removes suspended dust particles from a gas by applying a high voltage electrostatic charge to the particles and collecting them on charged plates

   Broaderindustrial process

Questions about electrostatic precipitation

What does electrostatic precipitation mean?

electrostatic precipitation means "a process that removes suspended dust particles from a gas by applying a high voltage electrostatic charge to the particles and collecting them on charged plates".

Is electrostatic precipitation a common word?

electrostatic precipitation 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.