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Hall-Héroult process
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Etymology
Named after the American chemist Charles Martin Hall and the Frenchman Paul Héroult, who invented it independently in 1886.
Proper noun
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A major industrial process for smelting aluminium, by dissolving alumina in molten cryolite and then performing electrolysis.
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