Hall-Héroult process

Meaning

Proper Noun

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

Origin

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

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