释义 |
Deacon, n.2 The name of Henry Deacon (1822–76), English industrial chemist, used attrib. or in the possessive to designate a process for the manufacture of chlorine by the catalytic oxidation of hydrochloric acid.
1876Encycl. Brit. V. 491/1 The production of chlorine by Deacon's process. 1921Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §143 Deacon plant man, deacon process man. 1965Phillips & Williams Inorg. Chem. I. xii. 446 Chlorine has been prepared by displacement with oxygen, in such exothermic reactions as..the Deacon process. |