Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

recovery boiler

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.66 in modern English

Syllables: re-cov-ery boil-er
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A boiler for recovering the sodium hydroxide and sodium sulfide used in a chemical wood pulping process.

noun

Ellipsis of heat recovery boiler (“a boiler used to recover heat from a hot process stream, such as flue gas from a gas turbine”).

Inflected Forms

recovery boilers (plural)

Questions

What does recovery boiler mean?: A boiler for recovering the sodium hydroxide and sodium sulfide used in a chemical wood pulping process.

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