Look up: Refining

1. refining
   [n] - the process of removing impurities (as from oil or metals or sugar etc.)
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2. refining
   [n] - the process of removing impurities (as from oil or metals or sugar etc.)
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3. Refining
   The process of converting crude oil into a more valuable commodity.
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4. Refining
   The process of cutting, breaking, and flattening the cellulose fibers in pulp. In order to form a strong, flexible paper, pulp fibers need to be flattened and frayed. The refiner has metal discs that can be adjusted to create longer or shorter fibers.
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5. refining
   mechanical treatment of fibrous material in a refiner in order to disintegrate chips and improve the ability of the fibres to form paper Category: Various industries and crafts • distillation of crude petroleum Category: The chemical industry • a term first used for the process of eliminating any undesirable growth in wet tropical high forest containing desirable species,e.…
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6. refining
   refinement noun the process of removing impurities (as from oil or metals or sugar etc.)
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7. Refining
   • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Refine
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8. refining
   (from the article `metallurgy`) Extraction is often followed by refining, in which the level of impurities is brought lower or controlled by pyrometallurgical, electrolytic, or ... Refining is the final procedure for removing (and often recovering as by-products) the last small amounts of impurities left after the major ... The nongl...
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9. refining
   Conversion of crude oil into useful products, such as naphtha, the most important feedstock for the petrochemical industry. Every refinery begins with the separation of crude oil into different fractions by distillation. The fractions are further treated to convert them into mixtures of more useful products by various methods such as cracking, refo...
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10. Refining
    A series of processes for converting crude oil and its fractions to finished petroleum products. Following distillation, a petroleum fraction may undergo one or more additional steps to purify or modify it. These refining steps include; thermal cracking, catalytic cracking, polymerization, alkylation, reforming, hydrocracking, hydroforming, hydrogenation, hydrogen treating, hydrofining, solvent ex...
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11. refining
    process of removing impurities from liquid charges like metals, alloys or semiconductors
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