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splitter

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splitter [′splid·ər]
(chemical engineering)
A petroleum-refinery term for a fractionating tower that produces only an overhead and bottom stream.
(systematics)
A taxonomist who divides taxa very finely.


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It was during this period, when the politicians went their saloon rounds, that I was getting bitter bits of education and having illusions punctured--I, who had pored and thrilled over "The Rail- Splitter," and "From Canal Boy to President.
I am a Jesuit, if you please to think so--a splitter of straws--a man of trifles and crochets and scruples--but you will humour me, I hope, in merciful consideration for my suspicious Italian character, and my uneasy Italian conscience.
 
 
 
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