CHEMICAL REACTOR

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

An apparatus for holding substances that are undergoing a chemical reaction

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("chemical reactor" is a kind of...):

apparatus; setup (equipment designed to serve a specific function)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "chemical reactor"):

cat cracker; catalytic cracker (a chemical reactor for converting oils with high boiling points into fuels with lower boiling points in the presence of a catalyst)

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