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prill [pril]
(chemical engineering)
To form pellet-sized crystals or agglomerates of material by the action of upward-blowing air on falling hot solution; used in the manufacture of ammonium nitrate and urea fertilizers.
(materials)
Spherical particles about the size of buckshot.
(mining engineering)
The best ore after cobbing.
A circular particle about the size of buckshot.
Compressed and sized explosives such as ammonium nitrate.


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Spray drying and prilling are two relatively inexpensive methods for coating particles.
Other uses for the product include the coating of troughs, pouring ladles, prilling dishes, sand cores and thermocouple sheaths.
Linde also can supply customers with sterile liquid nitrogen at the point of use for such applications as lyophilization, immersion freezing or prilling.
 
 
 
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