Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

raschig-hooker process

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.12 in modern English

Syllables: raschig-hook-er pro-cess
IPA

37

Scrabble Score

20

Letters

4

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A chemical process for the production of phenol, involving the initial production of chlorobenzene from benzene, hydrochloric acid and oxygen, and then the hydrolysis of chlorobenzene to phenol.

Etymology

Named after the German chemist Friedrich Raschig.

Inflected Forms

the Raschig-Hooker process (canonical)

Questions

What does raschig-hooker process mean?: A chemical process for the production of phenol, involving the initial production of chlorobenzene from benzene, hydrochloric acid and oxygen, and then the hydrolysis of chlorobenzene to phenol.
Where does raschig-hooker process come from?: Named after the German chemist Friedrich Raschig.

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