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fumehood

fumehood is the alternative spelling of fume hood.

Meaning of fume hood

Noun

fume hood (plural fume hoods)

  1. A ventilated compartment in which chemical procedures may be undertaken without the escape of noxious fumes into the local environment.
    • He turned the downstairs drawing room into a lab, installing a furnace, crucible, and fume hood, and stocking it with hundreds of beakers, flasks, pipes, and balances.2015, Steve Silberman, chapter 1, in Megan Newman, editor, NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity, New York: Avery, →ISBN, page 27

Forms of fumehood

pluralfumehoods

Questions about fumehood

What is fumehood the alternative spelling of?
Fumehood is the alternative spelling of fume hood.

Words near fumehood in the dictionary

  1. fume dates
  2. fume hood
  3. fume hoods
  4. fumed
  5. fumed oak
  6. fumehood
  7. fumehoods
  8. fumeless
  9. fumelessness
  10. fumelike
  11. fumer

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