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- noun A person or thing that
pressurizes .
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Examples
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There's little difference between the two insofar as both used water to cool and regulate the reactors, except that TMI had a pressurizer.
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Pressure is maintained by steam in a pressurizer (see diagram).
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Last month he started sleeping with a mask, hooked to an air pressurizer, that covers his nose and forces a steady stream of air down his throat.
Sounds Of Sleep 2008
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A PIRATE RAID UNAWARE THAT TOM lay helpless inside the jetmarine, Mr. Swift and the rest of the group waited around the massive concrete pressurizer as the test period ended.
Tom Swift Jr And His Jetmarine Almquist, John 1954
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Added the opposing classes sitting opposite the contestants, this is a very good pressurizer.
Anime Nano! 2010
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Added the opposing classes sitting opposite the contestants, this is a very good pressurizer.
Anime Nano! 2010
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Mistakenly, they reduced water flow into the pressurizer, thus reducing available water to cool the reactor, which began to overheat.
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They thought the pressurizer was becoming dangerously full of water, when it actually was leaking.
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"The pressurizer relief tank remained intact," a statement from the NRC said.
EcoWorld 2009
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The TMI accident occurred when a valve in a pressurizer, which regulates pressure inside the reactor system, failed to close, giving technicians inadequate information and leaving them unable to understand what was happening.
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