Castner process
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Castner process
[′kast·nər ‚präs·əs] (chemical engineering)
A process used industrially to make high-test sodium cyanide by reacting sodium, glowed charcoal, and dry ammonia gas to form sodamide, which is converted to cyanamide immediately; the cyanamide is converted to cyanide with charcoal.
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