The Solvay process or ammonia–soda process is the major industrial process for the production of sodium carbonate (soda ash, Na2CO3). The ammonia–soda...
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of Solvay, New York, where it was headquartered. The Solvay Process Company was a joint venture between Belgian chemists Ernest and Alfred Solvay, who...
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Ernest Gaston Joseph Solvay (French: [sɔlvɛ]; 16 April 1838 – 26 May 1922) was a Belgian chemist, industrialist and philanthropist. Born in Rebecq, he...
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Sodium carbonate (section Solvay process)
chloride and limestone by the Solvay process, as well as by carbonating sodium hydroxide which is made using the chloralkali process. Sodium carbonate is obtained...
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Solvay is a Belgian multinational chemical company established in 1863, with its headquarters located in Neder-Over-Heembeek, Brussels, Belgium. In 2015...
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was renamed "Solvay" after 1884, when the Solvay Process Company built a Solvay process plant to produce soda ash. The Village of Solvay was incorporated...
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carbonate to make sodium carbonate. The process gradually became obsolete after the development of the Solvay process. Soda ash (sodium carbonate) and potash...
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Université Libre de Bruxelles Solvay Process Company (1880–1985), a former U.S. company that employed the Solvay process Solvay S.A., an international chemicals...
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BASF (section Solvay process soda (1880))
Leblanc process until 1880, when the much cheaper Solvay process became available. BASF ceased to make its own and bought it from the Solvay company thereafter...
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of sodium carbonate in the United States, where it has replaced the Solvay process used in most of the rest of the world for sodium carbonate production...
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