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PRONUNCIATION OF FRACTIONATING COLUMN

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FRACTIONATING COLUMN

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WHAT DOES FRACTIONATING COLUMN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

fractionating column

Fractionating column

A fractionating column or fractionation column is an essential item used in distillation of liquid mixtures so as to separate the mixture into its component parts, or fractions, based on the differences in volatilities. Fractionating columns are used in small scale laboratory distillations as well as for large-scale industrial distillations.

Definition of fractionating column in the English dictionary

The definition of fractionating column in the dictionary is a long vertical cylinder used in fractional distillation, in which internal reflux enables separation of high and low boiling fractions to take place.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FRACTIONATING COLUMN

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WORDS THAT END LIKE FRACTIONATING COLUMN

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Synonyms and antonyms of fractionating column in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «fractionating column» into 25 languages

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Translator English - Chinese

分馏塔
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

columna de fraccionamiento
570 millions of speakers

English

fractionating column
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

fractionating स्तंभ
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

عمود التجزئة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

фракционирования колонка
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

coluna de fraccionamento
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বিভক্ত কলাম
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

colonne de fractionnement
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pengeziran lajur
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Fraktionierkolonne
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

分留塔
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

분획 열
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Fractionating column
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

cột cất phân đoạn
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பின்னூட்ட நெடுவரிசை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अपूर्णांक स्तंभ
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Fraksiyonlama sütunu
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

colonna di frazionamento
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

frakcjonowania kolumna
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

фракціонування колонка
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

coloana de fracționare
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

κλασματικής στήλης
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

fraksionering kolom
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

fraktioneringskolonn
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

fraksjone kolonne
5 millions of speakers

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FRACTIONATING COLUMN»

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Introduction to Organic Laboratory Techniques: A Small Scale ...
A vacuum jacket provides very good insulation of the inner column from the outside air temperature. In most student macroscale kits, the fractionating column is not evacuated but does have a jacket for insulation. This jacket, even though not ...
Donald L. Pavia, 2005
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How it Works: Science and Technology
(64 m) crude oil fractionating column dominates this scene of a typical oil refinery. The vertical pipes attached to this column and the smaller one at left tap off fractions that collect on plates within the column. The approximate heights of the  ...
Marshall Cavendish Corporation, 2003
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Analytical Chemistry for Technicians, Fourth Edition
Fractional distillation involves repeated evaporation/condensation steps before the distillate is actually collected. These repeated steps occur in a “fractionating column” (tube) above the original heated container—a column that contains a high ...
John Kenkel, 2013
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Comprehensive Chemistry XI
(b) By using a fractionating column When the boiling points of the two liquids are quite close (difference less than 30°) the separation is effected by fitting the distillation flask with a fractionating column (Fig. 16.8). A fractionating column is a  ...
Dr. N . K. Verma, S. K. Khanna, Dr. B. Kapila
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advanced practical inorganic and metalorganic chemistry
The efficiency of a fractionating column is related to its length, and the length of a column equivalent to one simple distillation is referred to as one theoretical plate. Table 8.1 compares the efficiencies of different designs of fractionating ...
R. John Errington, 1997
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A Microscale Approach to Organic Laboratory Techniques
Select a piece with an inner diameter that just matches or is slightly smaller than the diameter of the fractionating column so that it will fit snugly. CAUTION Cut the tubing to the correct length and then slit it with a sharp scissors. Do not use a ...
Donald Pavia, George Kriz, Gary Lampman, 2012
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The Michigan Technic
Consequently, a fractionating column of sufficient size to give results comparable to those of a commercial installation but small enough to allow convenient operation is an essential part of a chemical engineering laboratory. Such a column ...
‎1944
8
Science for Ninth Class Part2 CHEMISTRY
The alcohol vapour and water vapour rise up in the fractionating column. The upper part of the fractionating column is cooler, so as the hot vapours rise up in the column, they get cooled, condense and trickle back into the distillation flask.
Lakhmir Singh, Manjit Kaur, lakhmir singh and manjit kaur
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The Kingfisher Science Encyclopedia
SPLITTING CRUDE OIL INTO MANY PRODUCTS A fractionating column separates crude oil into mixtures called fractions. Each fraction is a m of hydrocarbons with similar boiling points. Fo example, diesel oil contains hydrocarbons that boil ...
Charles Taylor, 2000
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Synthetic Resins Technology Handbook
The fractionating column (partial condenser) has proved itself a most valuable adjunct to alkyd kettle equipment. Not only has the fractionating column permitted preparation of a wider variety of alkyd compositions, containing blends on ...
NIIR Board of Consultants and Engineers, 2005

8 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FRACTIONATING COLUMN»

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Booze science, from Industry City Distillery
... you were looking at a lab-scale glass fractionating column. It's a tool for separating different chemicals in a solution into its component parts. «Technical.ly Brooklyn, Aug 14»
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​Night inferno as refinery explodes in Russia (VIDEOS, PHOTO)
A rupture in a fractionating column, which was used to produce liquefied natural gas, caused a massive explosion, which started a fire. «RT, Jun 14»
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Iran to construct six oil refineries in Indonesia
The fractions at the top of the fractionating column have lower boiling points than the fractions at the bottom. The heavy bottom fractions are ... «Payvand, Apr 14»
4
Nashua distillery opens Saturday with a white whiskey
Andy Harthcock designed and built a 20-foot-tall fractionating column so Djinn Spirits, a new company founded by Harthcock and his wife, ... «Nashua Telegraph, Dec 13»
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The Many Faces of Distillation
Cobb says if you have wet methanol from water washing, a fractionating column is needed with a lot of dry methanol reflux going in at the top of ... «Biodiesel Magazine, Mar 13»
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The importance of Greenwich's industrial history
There were the perforations from Harveys – have you seen the film of how they took the fractionating column to Grangemouth up the A5 in the ... «Greenwich.co.uk, Nov 12»
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New trends in oil refinery wastewater reclamation
... such as the Crude Unit Fractionating Column Overhead Water Accumulator. They've looked at the concepts of potential decentralized wastewater treatment ... «Water World, Jun 12»
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Soaring Gasoline, Diesel, and Crude Oil Prices
Boiled out of raw crude oil lower and hotter in the fractionating column than gasoline, the broad economic impact of rising diesel prices may ... «The Market Oracle, May 08»

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