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reactor

[ ree-ak-ter ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a person or thing that reacts or undergoes reaction.
Electricity. a device whose primary purpose is to introduce reactance into a circuit.
Immunology, Veterinary Medicine. a patient or animal that reacts positively towards a foreign material.
Physics. nuclear reactor ( def ).
Chemistry. (especially in industry) a large container, as a vat, for processes in which the substances involved undergo a chemical reaction.

reactor

/ rɪˈæktə /

chem a substance, such as a reagent, that undergoes a reaction
short for nuclear reactor
a vessel, esp one in industrial use, in which a chemical reaction takes place
a coil of low resistance and high inductance that introduces reactance into a circuit
med a person sensitive to a particular drug or agent

Origin of reactor¹

First recorded in 1885–90; 1940–45 reactor fordef 4; react + -or ²

In 1981, while the world condemned us, we sent our air force to destroy the Osirak reactor Saddam Hussein was building in Iraq.

Iran is suspected to have aided in the funding of that reactor.

It prohibits the manufacture of new centrifuges and work on the Arak reactor.

Uranium enrichment makes what can be power reactor fuel but also the explosive core of atom bombs.

The reactor has the potential to produce weapons grade plutonium.

And what of those atoms disintegrating while others are still being created in the reactor?

This will be true no matter where in the reactor or for how long the irradiation took place.

It was the most logical, easiest, and simplest way for a D-H reactor to go off the deep end.

He walked over to it and stepped into the small chamber that led to the inner reactor room.

The trouble with the Ditmars-Horst reactor was that it lacked any automatic negative-feedback system.

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