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cooking liquor

cooking liquor noun: a liquid used to process pulpwood and make pulp, being called white liquor in its unused form, and black liquor after processing (after "cooking"), where it has dissolved and washed out impurities from the pulp, which becomes the resultant brown stock (pulp).

Noun

cooking liquor (countable and uncountable, plural cooking liquors)

  1. A liquid used to process pulpwood and make pulp, being called white liquor in its unused form, and black liquor after processing (after "cooking"), where it has dissolved and washed out impurities from the pulp, which becomes the resultant brown stock (pulp).
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cooking, liquor.

Forms of cooking liquor

pluralcooking liquors

Questions about cooking liquor

What does cooking liquor mean?
Cooking liquor means a liquid used to process pulpwood and make pulp, being called white liquor in its unused form, and black liquor after processing (after "cooking"), where it has dissolved and washed out impurities from the pulp, which becomes the resultant brown stock (pulp).
What part of speech is cooking liquor?
Cooking liquor is a noun.
What is the plural of cooking liquor?
The plural of cooking liquor is cooking liquors.

Words near cooking liquor in the dictionary

  1. cooking bitters
  2. cooking box
  3. cooking boxes
  4. cooking lager
  5. cooking lagers
  6. cooking liquor
  7. cooking liquors
  8. cooking off
  9. cooking oil
  10. cooking oils
  11. cooking on gas

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