electrorefining
Metallurgy
noun
The refining of metal by an electrochemical process, typically by means of an electrolytic cell in which the impure metal forms the anode or is present in solution, pure metal being deposited on the cathode.
Origin
Late 19th century.
- dimeter
- dimethoate
- dimethyl sulfoxide
- dimethyl sulphoxide
- dimetric
- dimetrodon
- dimidiate
- dimidiation
- diminish
- diminishable
- diminished
- diminished responsibility
- diminished seventh
- diminished seventh chord
- diminuendo
- diminution
- diminutive
- diminutively
- diminutiveness
- dimissory
- dimity
- dimly
- DIMM
- dimmable
- dimmer