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visbreakers

visbreakers is the plural of visbreaker.

Meaning of visbreaker

Noun

visbreaker (plural visbreakers)

  1. A processing unit in oil refinery that reduces the quantity of residual oil produced in the distillation of crude oil to increase the yield of more valuable middle distillates (heating oil and diesel) by thermally cracking large hydrocarbon molecules in the oil.

Questions about visbreakers

What is visbreakers the plural of?
Visbreakers is the plural of visbreaker.

Words near visbreakers in the dictionary

  1. Visayan
  2. Visayan spotted deer
  3. Visayans
  4. Visayas
  5. visbreaker
  6. visbreakers
  7. visbreaking
  8. Visby
  9. visc.
  10. visca
  11. viscaceous

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