Definition of Hydrometallurgy

1. n. The art or process of assaying or reducing ores by means of liquid reagents.

Definition of Hydrometallurgy

1. Noun. The field of extractive metallurgy involving the use of aqueous chemistry for the recovery of metals from ores, concentrates, and recycled or residual materials. ¹

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Definition of Hydrometallurgy

1. [n -GIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hydrometallurgy

hydromechanical
hydromechanically
hydromechanics
hydromedusa
hydromedusae
hydromel
hydromellone
hydromellonic acid
hydromels
hydromeningocele
hydrometallated
hydrometallation
hydrometallations
hydrometallurgical
hydrometallurgically
hydrometallurgy (current term)
hydrometeor
hydrometeorological
hydrometeorology
hydrometeors
hydrometer
hydrometers
hydromethylation
hydrometra
hydrometre
hydrometres
hydrometric
hydrometrical
hydrometrograph

Literary usage of Hydrometallurgy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Metallurgy of Copper by Heinrich Oscar Hofman (1914)
"Ch. Defrance, " Extraction du Cuivre, de l'Argent et de l'Or par la Voie Humide," Baudry, Paris, 1897. Eissler, M., " hydrometallurgy of Copper. ..."

2. The Metallurgy of the Common Metals, Gold, Silver, Iron (and Steel), Copper by Leonard Strong Austin (1921)
"CHAPTER XXXII THE hydrometallurgy OF COPPER PRINCIPLES OF THE hydrometallurgy OF COPPER The wet methods of extracting copper from ..."

3. The Copper Handbook by Horace Jared Stevens, Walter Harvey Weed (1910)
"•¡•Ja-: corri-'i; II.I\I>I;OOK. CHAPTER VI. THE hydrometallurgy OF COPPER. Readers desiring a detailed exposition of this subject are referred to ..."

4. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1888)
"... the question of the " hydrometallurgy of Copper," and among others, have noticed two methods, devised and patented by Mr. James Douglas and myself, ..."

5. Mines Register: Successor to the Mines Handbook and the Copper Handbook edited by Horace Jared Stevens, Walter Garfield Neale, Lenox Hawes Rand, Edward Barney Sturgis, Joseph Zimmerman (1907)
"THE hydrometallurgy OF COPPER. Readers desiring a detailed exposition of this subject are referred ... excellent volume entitled "hydrometallurgy of Copper. ..."

6. The Metallurgy of the Common Metals, Gold, Silver, Iron, Copper, Lead and Zinc by Leonard Strong Austin (1907)
"THE hydrometallurgy OF COPPER. Extraction of copper by wet methods.—This consists in getting the copper into aqueous solution, with or without the aid of ..."

7. The Metallurgy of the Common Metals, Gold, Silver, Iron, Copper, Lead and Zinc by Leonard Strong Austin (1909)
"... several California mills as varying from $0.20 to $0.75 per ton, and in a Gilpin county, Colorado, mill $0.95 per ton. 31. THE hydrometallurgy OF GOLD. ..."

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