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CHEMICAL REACTOR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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)