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Liquid or gas used to remove heat from something
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coolant
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. a fluid agent (gas or liquid) that produces cooling; especially one used to cool a system by transfering heat away from one part to another; "he added more coolant to the car's radiator"; "the atomic reactor used a gas coolant"; "lathe operators use ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"radiator fluid," 1930, from cool (adj.) + -ant .
Usage examples of coolant.
Aside from a torpedo launch, the check valves in the coolant piping made the loudest noise the Devilfish could make.
Pumps had no rotating parts and pushed the coolant through the loops using magnetism.
The ion exchange resin of the purification system, he knew, kept the radioactive particles in the nuclear coolant down to a minimum.
The new Russian reactor coolant pumps on the AKULA class made that sound.
The main coolant check valves slamming the piping from the order to go to flank speed.
Worst leaks look to be primary coolant, and the radiation level in the reactor compartment is climbing.
And relay the word to maneuvering: group scram the reactor, secure all reactor main coolant pumps, engage emergency cooling, shut main steam valves one and two and secure steam to the engine room.
Its slanting lower surface had a mock-up piping diagram of the main coolant system that showed the portcoolant loop on the left and its mirror image on the right.
In the center of the coolant system was a reactor core with a pistol-grip lever protruding from it that moved the control rods.
With the plant critical, the rods only affected coolant temperature, but when the plant was shut down the rods were withdrawn to start the nuclear fission reactions that heated the main coolant water, boiling the water in the steam generators and thereby providing steam to the turbines.
Delaney would need power to restart the reactor, especially for the power-hungry reactor main coolant pumps.
The reactor operator, an aggressive first-class petty officer named Manderson, acknowledged and flipped each reactor main coolant pump T-switch on the lower reactor control panel to the slow speed position, then pulled each switch upward.
Within seconds, main coolant average temperature dropped from 496 degrees Fahrenheit to 465 and continued to fall.
The end of the energy input was sensed immediately by the water coolant flowing in the fuel elements that no longer were super-hot.
The coolant stopped being heated by the fuel and arrived at the steam generators relatively cool at 465 degrees.