ZONE REFINING


Meaning of ZONE REFINING in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ noun ]

Date: 1952

: a technique for the purification of a crystalline material and especially a metal in which a molten region travels through the material to be refined, picks up impurities at its advancing edge, and then allows the purified part to recrystallize at its opposite edge — called also zone melting

• zone-refined adjective

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