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Meaning of MANHES PROCESS

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Man`h[`e]s" proc"ess\ (Copper Metal.)
A process by which copper matte is treated by passing through
it a blast of air, to oxidize and remove sulphur. It is
analogous in apparatus to the Bessemer process for
decarbonizing cast iron. So called from Pierre Manh[`e]s, a
French metallurgist, who invented it.
 
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