solvay process

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   an industrial process for producing sodium carbonate from sodium chloride and ammonia and carbon dioxide

   Broaderindustrial process

Questions about solvay process

What does solvay process mean?

solvay process means "an industrial process for producing sodium carbonate from sodium chloride and ammonia and carbon dioxide".

Is solvay process a common word?

solvay 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.