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vaporizer

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vaporizer [′vā·pə‚rīz·ər]
(chemical engineering)
A process vessel in which a liquid is heated until it vaporizes; heat can be indirect (steam or heat-transfer fluid) or direct (hot gases or submerged combustion).


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Publicly traded OSI Systems, better known for its security and inspection equipment, also has a medical division with products including digital medical monitoring devices, anesthesia systems, and vaporizers and ventilators used in hospitals and clinics.
5% have a steam type, followed by a vaporizer type (14.
In its defense, AWOL USA, the machine's American distributor, quotes a British Health Department official's conclusion that using the vaporizer is no more dangerous than "consuming an equivalent amount of alcohol in an equivalent time period in a more traditional way.
 
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