单词	thickener
释义	thickener /ˈθɪkənə / noun 1A substance added to a liquid to make it firmer, especially in cooking.The most familiar use of starch is as a thickener for cooking sauces, as in cornflour, or perhaps as a substance for stiffening shirt collars.... Wheat flour used as a starch thickener needs relatively long cooking to remove its raw taste; and even after cooking it has a noticeable flavour. This is a synthetic substance used as a thickener and to encourage lather. 1.1 Chemistry An apparatus for the sedimentation of solids from suspension in a liquid.For instance, a town of 7,000 might have a sewage plant containing four pumps, sludge thickeners, and a chlorinator.... We're usually talking here about huge buildings stuffed full of crushers, agitators, thickeners, ball mills, conveyors and other vital equipment. Rhymes sickener
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