Hot water for use in industrial processes.

A major industrial process for smelting aluminium, by dissolving alumina in molten cryolite and then performing electrolysis.

(statistics) A method of monitoring a process through the use of control charts.

Alternative spelling of interprocess communication

A field of computer science and linguistics concerned with the interactions between computers and human (natural) languages, especially computational analysis and processing of large amounts of natural language data.

A step used in producing some Tennessee whiskeys, in which the whiskey is filtered through or steeped in charcoal chips before going into the casks for aging.

A process for toughening self-hardening steel by heating and cooling it to various temperatures in molten lead, oil, and air.

(metalworking) A method of coating iron or steel with magnetic iron oxide in order to minimize atmospheric corrosion. The articles to be treated are put into a closed retort and a current of superheated steam passed through for a period, followed by a current of producer gas (carbon monoxide), to reduce any higher oxides that may have been formed.

(inorganic chemistry) An industrial method for the production of sulphuric acid

The nitrogen fixation reaction of calcium carbide with nitrogen gas in a reactor vessel at about 1,000°C, producing nitrolim.