(under the class definition) Process wherein a material which is normally solid at room temperature is used in a molten state to destroy or convert a hazardous or toxic waste to an environmentally safe substance.
(1) Note. The molten medium employed is most commonly molten metal or molten salts.
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75, Specialized Metallurgical Processes, Compositions for Use Therein, Consolidated Metal Powder Compositions, and Loose Metal Particulate Mixtures, appropriate subclasses for a process which produces elemental metal as a desired product and which may also destroy hazardous or toxic waste.
201, Distillation: Processes, Thermolytic,
11, for the use of liquid metal in a thermolytic distillation for purposes other than the destruction of hazardous or toxic waste.
423, Chemistry of Inorganic Compounds, digest 12 for the use of molten media in chemical reactions.
