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MINERAL DRESSING

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Dictionary entry overview: What does mineral dressing mean?

• MINERAL DRESSING (noun)
The noun MINERAL DRESSING has 1 sense:

1. crushing and separating ore into valuable substances or waste by any of a variety of techniques

Familiarity information: MINERAL DRESSING used as a noun is very rare.

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• MINERAL DRESSING (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Crushing and separating ore into valuable substances or waste by any of a variety of techniques

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

beneficiation; mineral dressing; mineral extraction; mineral processing; ore dressing; ore processing

Hypernyms ("mineral dressing" is a kind of...):

extraction (the process of obtaining something from a mixture or compound by chemical or physical or mechanical means)

Domain member category:

activating agent ((mineral extraction) a surface-active chemical used in flotation process to increase the attraction to a specific mineral)

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