The industrial process of extracting and purifying metals from ores or solutions using electrical current and electrochemical reactions.
From electrowin + -ing. A key process developed in the late 1800s for extracting precious and industrial metals, becoming essential to modern mining operations.
Electrowinning is one of those 'invisible' technologies powering modern life—it produces most of the copper in your phone's circuitry and much of the world's gold, all through applied electricity and chemistry.
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