activating agent

English Thesaurus

1. (mineral extraction) a surface-active chemical used in flotation process to increase the attraction to a specific mineral (noun.substance)

hypernym	:	activator,
definition	:	(biology) any agency bringing about activation; a molecule that increases the activity of an enzyme or a protein that increases the production of a gene product in DNA transcription (noun.substance)

domain category	:	beneficiation, mineral dressing, mineral extraction, mineral processing, ore dressing, ore processing,
definition	:	crushing and separating ore into valuable substances or waste by any of a variety of techniques (noun.process)