fractionator
Americannoun
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Chemistry. an apparatus for fractional distillation.
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any apparatus capable of separating complex liquid substances, as blood, into their component parts.
Etymology
Origin of fractionator
Example Sentences
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It also launched its twelfth natural gas liquids fractionator and its second propane dehydrogenation plant in Chambers County, Texas.
From Reuters ● Aug. 1, 2023
West, M. J., Ostergaard, K., Andreassen, O. A. & Finsen, B. Estimation of the number of somatostatin neurons in the striatum: an in situ hybridization study using the optical fractionator method.
From Nature ● Oct. 31, 2017
A fractionator of the orthodox gravity type would have to be 700 ft. high, said he, to compete with his trim little machine in efficiency.
From Time Magazine Archive
The fractionator turned itself off and he focused on and studied the slide it yielded.
From The Hate Disease by Murray Leinster
In the fractionator slide he could get more information—the rate-of-diffusion of a substance in solution ruled out all but a certain number of compounds that it could be.
From The Hate Disease by Murray Leinster
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