refining process
Crude material improvement
A refining process is a series of steps that purifies or improves raw materials.
Crude oil undergoes refining processes to become gasoline and other fuels.
Sugar, metals, and grains all require refining processes to reach usable form.
The term extends to any systematic method of improvement: the refining process for our manuscript took months.
- oil refineryPetroleum processing facility
- smeltingExtracting metal from ore
- distillationPurification via vaporization
- neutralizationCanceling opposing forces
- extractionAct of removing
cracking · catalysis · chemical plant · filtration · purification · sorting · cleansing · desulfurization · separation · blast furnace · dewaxing · crystallization · leaching · precipitation · clarification · electrolysis · precious metals · gold bar
- refineryoil refinery, crude oil, refining, distillation, cracking
refining processadulteration
Corrupting by foreign substances
pollution · corruption · polluting · fouling · tainting
refining processmining
Extracting earth's resources
harvesting · drilling · quarrying · gathering · collection
refining processblending
Combining into uniformity
combining · compounding · amalgamation · homogenization · aggregation