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fractionator

fractionator noun: a piece of chemical engineering or laboratory apparatus that is used to separate the components of a mixture by fractionation, especially by fractional distillation or by chromatography.

Noun

fractionator (plural fractionators)

  1. A piece of chemical engineering or laboratory apparatus that is used to separate the components of a mixture by fractionation, especially by fractional distillation or by chromatography.

Forms of fractionator

pluralfractionators

Origin of fractionator

From fractionate + -or.

Words formed from fractionator

Questions about fractionator

What does fractionator mean?
Fractionator means a piece of chemical engineering or laboratory apparatus that is used to separate the components of a mixture by fractionation, especially by fractional distillation or by chromatography.
What part of speech is fractionator?
Fractionator is a noun.
What is the plural of fractionator?
The plural of fractionator is fractionators.

Words near fractionator in the dictionary

  1. fractionating
  2. fractionating column
  3. fractionating columns
  4. fractionation
  5. fractionations
  6. fractionator
  7. fractionators
  8. fractioned
  9. fractioning
  10. fractionings
  11. fractionisation

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