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Leblanc process

Le·blanc pro·cess [ lə blN prò sess, lə blngk prò sess ]


noun 
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early industrial process: an obsolete industrial process for the production of sodium carbonate from common salt and sulfur. It was replaced at the end of the 19th century by the Solvay process.

[Early 19th century. After Nicolas Leblanc (1742-1806), French chemist]
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