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can someone please explain to me the difference between обработка and переработка? the English definition given with both is "treatment, processing", but i sense of course that the two prefixes give slightly different connotations. my guess is that пере- is changing a material into something else entirely; Yandex gives the example переработка отходов — (waste) recycling. (and conversationally, переработка can also mean overtime [overwork]) and об- refers to mechanical/light chemical processing that doesn't change the inherent nature of the material, just its organization (обработка данных/почты/заказа — data/mail/order processing). заранее спасибо.

p.s., this is why i <3 Russian.