Search:   Dictionary All Posts
Store Your Knowledge at the Brain Bank!
Login / Register - It's free!

refining Definition

Cancel
Login to Create a ListRegister for Free!
refining
verb(re-fine)
to free (something, such as metal, sugar, or oil) from impurities or unwanted material
refining
verb(re-fine)
to free from moral imperfection : elevate
refining
verb(re-fine)
to improve or perfect by pruning or polishing
refining
noun(re-fine)
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

Words Related to refining!

refinement, refineries, refinery, refiners, oil, petroleum, smelting, extraction, processing, honing, streamlining, extracting, perfecting, upgrading, revising, improving, sharpening, adjusting, enhancing, improved, clarifying, improve, purification, replicating, purifying, improvement, revision, development, enhancement, improvements, adjustment, revise, enhance, beating, perfection, debugging, clarify, refresher, transformation, tune, specify, sophistication, specifying, perfect, assignment, fine-tune, fine-tuning, redefining, upskilling, zone, petrochemical, crude oil, olefins, feedstock, hydrocracking, butanes, naphtha, crude, alkylation, ethylene, natural gas, catalytic cracker, coking, tankage, aromatics, steelmaking, distillate, paraffinic, phthalic anhydride, fractionation, cumene, raw material, production, coker, propylene, bitumens, alumina, distilling, reformate, gas, pipelines, sulfanilic acid, distillation, conoco, caprolactam, bbl, paraxylene, desulfurization, butyl rubber, oilfield, vacuum distillation, minimill, dehydrogenation, oil refinery, orthoxylene, gasoline, isomerization, raw materials, acrylonitrile, fractional distillation,

refining Examples by Brain Bank Users