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blowdown

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blowdown [ˈbləʊˌdaʊn]
n
(Engineering / Civil Engineering) an accident in a nuclear reactor in which a cooling pipe bursts causing the loss of essential coolant
vb
(Engineering / Mechanical Engineering) to open a valve in a steam boiler to eject any sediment that has collected


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