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hall-héroult process

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
hal-l-h-er-oult pro-cess
IPA
27
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
6
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A major industrial process for smelting aluminium, by dissolving alumina in molten cryolite and then performing electrolysis.

Etymology

Named after the American chemist Charles Martin Hall and the Frenchman Paul Héroult, who invented it independently in 1886.

Inflected Forms

the Hall-Héroult process (canonical)

Questions

What does hall-héroult process mean?
A major industrial process for smelting aluminium, by dissolving alumina in molten cryolite and then performing electrolysis.
Where does hall-héroult process come from?
Named after the American chemist Charles Martin Hall and the Frenchman Paul Héroult, who invented it independently in 1886.

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