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boil-off
[ boil-awf, -of ]
noun
- Rocketry. any vapor loss from the oxidizer or fuel in a rocket during countdown.
- Also called boil·ing-off [boi, -ling-, awf, -, of]. Textiles.
- the process of degumming silk.
- the process of removing sizing, wax, impurities, etc., from fabric by scouring.
boil off
verb
- to remove or be removed (from) by boiling
to boil off impurities
Word History and Origins
Origin of boil-off1
Example Sentences
Given the chance, liquid hydrogen will "boil-off" and escape as a gas - potentially becoming a hazard.
Likewise, while current MRI machines do use up to 1000 liters of helium in their cryostats, "they do not let it evaporate as they did a decade ago; they recycle it. Therefore there is no need to regularly fill these scanners," which are known as "'zero boil-off' magnets."
ULA will also get $2 million for technology to reduce cryogenic fuel boil-off and $1.9 million to demonstrate the midair retrieval of a vehicle coming back to our planet from orbital velocity.
This is a zone where there can be sufficient solar heating to cause the ‘boil-off’, or sublimation, of solid ice into the vacuum of space.
The current data seem to suggest that this boil-off, like that of a cometary nucleus, is the more likely culprit for Ceres’s watery outbursts – coinciding with its closest approaches to the Sun.
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