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Pa·tera process | \ pəˈtārə- \
Definition of Patera process
: extraction of silver from its ores by roasting with salt, leaching out the silver chloride with a solution of sodium thiosulfate, and precipitating the silver as sulfide by means of sodium sulfide
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