Manhes process

Man`hes´ proc´ess


1.(Copper Metal.) A process by which copper matte is treated by passing through it a blast of air, to oxidize and remove sulphur. It is analogous in apparatus to the Bessemer process for decarbonizing cast iron. So called from Pierre Manhès, a French metallurgist, who invented it.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.