solvay process in English
noun
1
an industrial process for obtaining sodium carbonate from limestone, ammonia, and brine.
In the Solvay process , ammonia and carbon dioxide are used to produce sodium carbonate from salt and limestone.
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1. Today, about 70 Solvay process plants are still operational worldwide.
2. Chemist Ernest Solvay and engineer Zenobe Gramme (École industrielle de Liège) gave their names to the Solvay process and the Gramme dynamo, respectively, in the 1860s.
3. In 1872 Mond got in touch with the Belgian industrialist Ernest Solvay who was developing a better process to manufacture soda, the ammonia-soda or Solvay process.