haber process

1. 1.

   an industrial process for producing ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen by combining them under high pressure in the presence of an iron catalyst

   SynonymsHaber-Bosch process

   Broaderindustrial process

Questions about haber process

What does haber process mean?

haber process means "an industrial process for producing ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen by combining them under high pressure in the presence of an iron catalyst".

What is another word for haber process?

Close synonyms include Haber-Bosch process. 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 haber process a common word?

haber 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.