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bioreactor

bioreactor noun: a vat or pressure vessel, containing microorganisms or biochemically active substances, used for biotechnological processes such as fermentation, waste recycling, or making drugs.

Noun

bioreactor (plural bioreactors)

  1. A vat or pressure vessel, containing microorganisms or biochemically active substances, used for biotechnological processes such as fermentation, waste recycling, or making drugs.
    • First, there will be little reaction in the settler so that the concentrations of soluble constituents in the recycle stream are the same as those in the bioreactor.2011, C. P. Leslie Grady, Jr.; Glen T. Daigger; Nancy G. Love, Biological Wastewater Treatment, Third Edition, page 189

Forms of bioreactor

pluralbioreactors

Origin of bioreactor

From bio- + reactor.

Words formed from bioreactor

Questions about bioreactor

What does bioreactor mean?
Bioreactor means a vat or pressure vessel, containing microorganisms or biochemically active substances, used for biotechnological processes such as fermentation, waste recycling, or making drugs.
What part of speech is bioreactor?
Bioreactor is a noun.
What is the plural of bioreactor?
The plural of bioreactor is bioreactors.

Words near bioreactor in the dictionary

  1. bioreaction
  2. bioreactions
  3. bioreactive
  4. bioreactivities
  5. bioreactivity
  6. bioreactor
  7. bioreactors
  8. bioreading
  9. bioreadings
  10. bioreagent
  11. bioreagents

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