The first commercially successful method of manufacturing synthetic gemstones, involving the melting of a finely powdered substance using an oxyhydrogen flame and crystallising the melted droplets into a boule.

plural of processed cheese

(law) The stages a bill must go through before it becomes law.

A kind of theology developed from process philosophy, and according to which it is an essential attribute of God to affect and be affected by temporal processes, rather than being eternal and immutable.

plural of process theology

The electrolytic method of bromine extraction from brine.

Very heavily processed.

(chemistry) A process for recovering manganese dioxide for reuse in chlorine manufacture, by reacting it with hydrochloric acid.

(chemistry) A method of crystal growth used to obtain single crystals of semiconductors, metals, salts, and synthetic gemstones.

plural of batch processing