scrubber
Noun
Meaning
One who, or that which, scrubs; esp., a brush used in scrubbing.
A gas washer. See under Gas.
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Bernard Manning: "Madonna? Lovely. Oh yes. Nice skin. You could tell she wasn't a scrubber."
A large-scale ore scrubber jointly manufactured and processed by Production Division 1, Production Division 3 and the Equipment Manufacturing Division of Daming Heavy Industry was successfully exported to Mclanahan in Australia.
Atmosphere control equipment includes a CO 2 scrubber, which uses an amine absorbent to remove the gas from air and diffuse it into waste pumped overboard.
A machine that uses a catalyst to convert carbon monoxide into carbon dioxide (removed by the CO 2 scrubber) and bonds hydrogen produced from the ship's storage battery with oxygen in the atmosphere to produce water, is also used.
A concrete view subclass for displaying images in a scrubber items.
Still, most semi-closed systems allow at least twice the duration of open circuit systems (around 2 hours) and are often limited by scrubber endurance.