electrometallurgyn.

1840 A. Smee (title) Elements of electro-metallurgy.

1846 J. Joyce Electr. in Sci. Dialogues iii. 412 The whole art of electro-metallurgy..consists in making a good selection of solutions.

1889 G. M. Hopkins Exper. Sci. (1893) xviii. 399 The Smee battery has been used largely in telegraphy and electro-metallurgy.

1937 Technol. Trends & National Policy (Rep. Subcommittee Technol. to National Resources Comm.) iii. viii. 357 Another interesting possible development in electro-metallurgy may be forthcoming in the field of those metals such as aluminum and magnesium which are now produced by deposition from molten salt baths.

1973 R. D. Pehlke Unit Processes Extractive Metall. i. 5 Their extraction is accomplished by application of chemical metallurgy in one of the three areas of extractive metallurgy: pyrometallurgy, hydrometallurgy, or electrometallurgy.

1990 Financial Times (Nexis) 10 July i. 35 The [Soviet] state then decided that the institute should develop into electro-metallurgy.

1843 J. Timbs Year-bk. of Facts 160 (heading) Improved electro-metallurgic apparatus.

1945 R. W. van Bemmelen in P. Honig & F. Verdoorn Sci. & Scientists Netherlands Indies 6 Plans..to erect a factory..for electrometallurgic aluminum on the Assahan River in order to use the energy of the Assahan waterfalls had to be abandoned.

1991 J. E. Myhre in T. Hall Planning & Urban Growth Nordic Countries 124 This was also the case with the power-consuming electrotechnical and electrometallurgic industries that were established during the first decades of the twentieth century.

1854 A. Smee in Jrnl. Soc. Arts 22 Dec. 82/1 My electro-metallurgical experience indicated that the perfection which the Bank require [in note-printing]..might be obtained.

1924 A. J. Allmand & H. J. T. Ellingham Princ. Appl. Electrochem. (ed. 2) p. iii The twelve years..comprised the war period, during which electrochemical and electrometallurgical methods more than maintained their ground in the enormous industrial expansion which then took place.

2005 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 27 Dec. d3/3 The new plan is for ‘electrometallurgical’ reprocessing, in which giant electrodes are inserted in a mix of waste components, somewhat like electroplating.