Definition of Liquefier

1. n. That which liquefies.

Definition of Liquefier

1. Noun. A device used to liquify gases (by cooling and compression) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Liquefier

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Liquefier

liquates
liquating
liquation
liquations
liquefacient
liquefaction
liquefaction degeneration
liquefactions
liquefactive
liquefactive necrosis
liquefiable
liquefication
liquefied
liquefied natural gas
liquefied petroleum gas
liquefier (current term)
liquefiers
liquefies
liquefy
liquefying
liquesce
liquesced
liquescency
liquescent
liquesces
liqueur
liqueured
liqueurs
liquid

Literary usage of Liquefier

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Course in General Chemistry by William McPherson, William Edwards Henderson (1921)
"When a gas is alternately compressed and expanded, its temperature steadily falls to the point of liquefaction. The Hampson liquefier. ..."

2. Review of American Chemical Research by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1906)
"The author compares the efficiency of a Hampson liquefier, run in the usual way, with a modified liquefier in which the air, just before reaching the ..."

3. The Fixation of Atmospheric Nitrogen by Joseph Knox (1914)
"The gases then passed to the liquefier, where the greater part of the NH3 was condensed by passing through a coil immersed in a mixture of solid C02 and ..."

4. Compressed Air Information; Or, A Cyclopedia Containing Practical Papers on by William Lawrence Saunders (1903)
"ing which connected to the spiral space of the liquefier, and hence to the vacuum pump. At the lower extremity of the central header of the liquefier, ..."

5. Transactions of the International Engineering Congress, 1915 (1916)
"... cooled about the evaporator, and that for cooling about the liquefier. The external regime is of more especial interest in the refrigerating industry. ..."

6. Compressed Air Information: Or, A Cyclopedia Containing Practical Papers on by W[illiam] L[awrence] Saunders (1903)
"This second set contain the expanded air returning from the liquefier. ... Before considering the liquefier it is perhaps well to trace the course of what ..."

7. Practical Bacteriology, Blood Work and Animal Parasitology: Including by Edward Rhodes Stitt (1920)
"The gelatine liquefier, B. cloacae, is closely related to B. coll and is of interest in ... It digests blood-serum and is a rapid liquefier of gelatin. ..."

8. Descriptive Chemistry by Lyman Churchill Newell (1903)
"As it escapes into the liquefier it expands and its temperature falls, ... The temperature of the liquefier is thus reduced, so that the air, ..."

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