: a process for making soda from common salt by passing carbon dioxide into ammoniacal brine resulting in precipitation of sodium bicarbonate which is then calcined to carbonate
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Solvay process
noun
Sol·vay process
ˈsäl-ˌvā- 
: a process for making sodium carbonate from common salt using carbon dioxide and ammonia
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