"prilling" meaning in English

See prilling in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Rhymes: -ɪlɪŋ Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} prilling (uncountable)
  1. The solidification of droplets of molten material falling against an upward stream of air; used especially to agglomerate ammonium nitrate and urea for use as a fertilizer. Tags: uncountable Related terms: prill, prilling tower Translations (solidification of droplets of molten material): гранули́рование (granulírovanije) [neuter] (Russian), зерне́ние (zernénije) [neuter] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-prilling-en-noun-y4UV8Dzp Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Download JSON data for prilling meaning in English (1.7kB)

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "prilling (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2005, Douglas K. Louie, Handbook of Sulfuric Acid Manufacturing, pages 5–11",
          "text": "In air prilling, molten sulphur is sprayed from the top of a tower against an upward flow of air. As the sulphur falls, the sulphur droplets break into small droplets and cools into prills.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The solidification of droplets of molten material falling against an upward stream of air; used especially to agglomerate ammonium nitrate and urea for use as a fertilizer."
      ],
      "id": "en-prilling-en-noun-y4UV8Dzp",
      "links": [
        [
          "solidification",
          "solidification"
        ],
        [
          "droplet",
          "droplet"
        ],
        [
          "molten",
          "molten"
        ],
        [
          "falling",
          "falling"
        ],
        [
          "upward",
          "upward"
        ],
        [
          "stream",
          "stream"
        ],
        [
          "air",
          "air"
        ],
        [
          "agglomerate",
          "agglomerate"
        ],
        [
          "ammonium nitrate",
          "ammonium nitrate"
        ],
        [
          "urea",
          "urea"
        ],
        [
          "fertilizer",
          "fertilizer"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "prill"
        },
        {
          "word": "prilling tower"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "granulírovanije",
          "sense": "solidification of droplets of molten material",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "гранули́рование"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "zernénije",
          "sense": "solidification of droplets of molten material",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "зерне́ние"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪlɪŋ"
    }
  ],
  "word": "prilling"
}
{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "prilling (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "prill"
    },
    {
      "word": "prilling tower"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "Rhymes:English/ɪlɪŋ",
        "Rhymes:English/ɪlɪŋ/2 syllables"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2005, Douglas K. Louie, Handbook of Sulfuric Acid Manufacturing, pages 5–11",
          "text": "In air prilling, molten sulphur is sprayed from the top of a tower against an upward flow of air. As the sulphur falls, the sulphur droplets break into small droplets and cools into prills.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The solidification of droplets of molten material falling against an upward stream of air; used especially to agglomerate ammonium nitrate and urea for use as a fertilizer."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "solidification",
          "solidification"
        ],
        [
          "droplet",
          "droplet"
        ],
        [
          "molten",
          "molten"
        ],
        [
          "falling",
          "falling"
        ],
        [
          "upward",
          "upward"
        ],
        [
          "stream",
          "stream"
        ],
        [
          "air",
          "air"
        ],
        [
          "agglomerate",
          "agglomerate"
        ],
        [
          "ammonium nitrate",
          "ammonium nitrate"
        ],
        [
          "urea",
          "urea"
        ],
        [
          "fertilizer",
          "fertilizer"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪlɪŋ"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "granulírovanije",
      "sense": "solidification of droplets of molten material",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "гранули́рование"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "zernénije",
      "sense": "solidification of droplets of molten material",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "зерне́ние"
    }
  ],
  "word": "prilling"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-26 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (93a6c53 and 21a9316). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.