Refrigerating
[rɪ'frɪdʒə,ret]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Refrigerate
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Examples
- The preservation of food is also dependent on ammonia, which produces the refrigerating effect in the numerous cold storage houses and artificial ice plants in this country. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- A refrigerating chamber _b_, submerged in the water, is charged internally with some volatile liquid, such as ether. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- They had 7,900 employees, and 2,250 refrigerating cars were employed for the transportation of their products. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The cuisine includes a refrigerating plant, the finest ranges, and provisions galore. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Refrigeration is at present its most natural and obvious use, and it is claimed that eleven gallons of the material when gradually expanded has the refrigerating power of one ton of ice. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Over 600 United States patents have been granted for ice machines alone, to say nothing of refrigerating buildings, refrigerator cars, domestic refrigerators, and ice cream freezers, etc. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The first embodiment of the principle in a refrigerating apparatus is by Windhausen--United States patent No. 101,198, March 22, 1870. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Refrigerating salts and mixtures are used to produce cold artificially. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
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