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flash boilers

flash boilers is the plural of flash boiler.

Meaning of flash boiler

Noun

flash boiler (plural flash boilers)

  1. A variety of water-tube steam boiler, used chiefly in steam automobiles, consisting of a nest of strong tubes with very little water space, kept nearly red hot so that the water as it trickles drop by drop into the tubes is immediately flashed into steam and superheated. (This type of boiler allowed steam autos to steam up fast enough to be practical.)

Questions about flash boilers

What is flash boilers the plural of?
Flash boilers is the plural of flash boiler.

Words near flash boilers in the dictionary

  1. flash around
  2. flash back
  3. flash bang
  4. flash bangs
  5. flash boiler
  6. flash boilers
  7. flash bomb
  8. flash burn
  9. flash burner
  10. flash burners
  11. flash burns

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