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chemical reactor

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Noun1.chemical reactor - an apparatus for holding substances that are undergoing a chemical reaction
apparatus, setup - equipment designed to serve a specific function
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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A miniature chemical reactor that whips up a diagnostic tool could widen the availability of positron-emission tomography (PET) scans, say the reactor's inventors.
Further, MFIC's developmental continuous chemical reactor technology embodied in its novel Microfluidizer[R] Mixer/Reactor system (MMR) should provide manufacturers with a highly effective, cost and energy efficient method for performing fast chemical reactions on a nanoscale and for manufacture of high value added nanomaterials and nano-pharmaceuticals.
Experimental evidence that such a mechanism could govern a chemical system didn't emerge until 1990, when Patrick De Kepper and his co-workers at the University of Bordeaux in France produced a stationary pattern of spots in a thin gel continuously fed a fresh solution - containing malonic acid and chlorite and iodide ions-in a special chemical reactor (SN: 8/11/90, p.
 
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