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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of fluidize.
  • adjective Given the properties of a fluid (by shaking or injection of gas)

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Examples

  • This material is first dried and ground up, then fed into a device called a fluidized bed reactor, where it is heated and put under vacuum.

    Technology That Breaks the Car Industry Mold Mike Ramsey 2011

  • This material is first dried and ground up, then fed into a device called a fluidized bed reactor, where it is heated and put under vacuum.

    WSJ.com: What's News US 2011

  • REC's so-called fluidized bed reactor process grows beads of polysilicon from pressurized gas and tiny liquidized seeds of semi-purified material.

    BusinessWeek.com -- Top News 2011

  • The contract, worth S$25. 5 million includes items such as fluidized bed reactors.

    Channel NewsAsia Front Page News 2010

  • The GRM is probably below expectations due to the shutdown of the FCCU fluidized catalytic cracking unit.

    Reliance Industries Net Profit Rises 14% Eric Yep 2011

  • Citigroup said Reliance's management had indicated that a planned shutdown of a fluidized catalytic cracking unit had hit production of higher-value products.

    Reliance Industries Drags India Shares Lower Sudeep Jain 2011

  • His most famous industrial contribution was fluidized-bed catalytic cracking of petroleum, which solved many of the problems posed by the Houdry process and played a large part in supplying the vast quantities of gasoline needed during World War II.

    Lewis, Warren K. 2009

  • In reality, practice has been reduced to either lime in the combustion bed or in a secondary fluidization chamber where the lime is fluidized by the exhaust gasses.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Clean Air, Dirty Water 2009

  • Yeah Anonymous, introducing lime into furnaces is so unattached to reality that many fluidized coal burners are designed to actually do this.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Clean Air, Dirty Water 2009

  • The tetrafluoride is then fed into a fluidized bed reactor with gaseous fluorine to produce UF6.

    Uranium enrichment 2009

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