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A chemical that is added to a solution or mixture or suspension to maintain it in a stable or unchanging state
Answer for the clue "A chemical that is added to a solution or mixture or suspension to maintain it in a stable or unchanging state ", 10 letters:
stabilizer
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. 1 agent noun of stabilize; any person or thing which brings stability. 2 Any substance added to something in order to stabilize it. 3 A gyroscopically controlled fin or similar device that prevents the excess rolling of a ship in rough seas. 4 An airfoil ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1909 in aeronautical sense, agent noun from stabilize (v.).
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Examination of the aircraft revealed the horizontal stabilizer was in the full travel nose-down position and beyond the micro switch stop. ▪ The complete normal and emergency stabilizer trim systems operated normally when functionally ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Stabilizer , stabiliser , stabilisation or stabilization may refer to:
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a chemical that is added to a solution or mixture or suspension to maintain it in a stable or unchanging state airfoil consisting of a device for stabilizing an aircraft a device for making something stable [syn: stabiliser ]
Usage examples of stabilizer.
Without compensation from the attitude stabilizers, the massive ship lost its ability to restrain the magnetic pull of Sonce 5 and begin an undirected plunge through the atmosphere.
Sleek Radon - Ulzer fighter engines with scoop-air stabilizers towed the Pod at the end of Steel ton cables.
A projectile slid from the underpart of the ship, extended stabilizers, and spiraled toward the ground.
Nor did the lower one show any sign of floats, stabilizers, or airfoil surfaces.
Buntz settled his pipper on the nearest target of the eastern element, locked the stabilizer, and rolled his foot forward on the firing pedal.
The United States was wearying of being the perpetual fallback stabilizer, especially since the Mideast equilibrium had dissolved into ultranationalist and water rights issues.
They'd put more patches with more antifungals and blood-sugar stabilizers under my skin.
George M was a freighter, not a cruise liner, and lacked antiroll stabilizers.
No contest this time, the Snow Cruiser ripped off the vertical and horizontal stabilizers as if they were a balsawood tail on a model airplane.
I’ll need your speed to run some calibrations on the new multichannel stabilizer or we’ll never get back on track.
Jones was doing all the talking with the base's air traffic controllers, as Hunter was busy trying to keep the plane aloft without benefit of the broad stabilizer flaps.
The port stabilizer held fast but the starboard stabilizer, which is composed of lead and steel, left rhe water and slammed into the bait box just inches from a seaman.
The ship was rolling twenty degrees left and right despite her stabilizers and bilge keels, but Johns fixed his eyes on the center of the target area, which wasn't rolling at all, just a fixed point in space.
Then he inserted his outstretched feet into grips on the vertical stabilizer and brake pedals, and then gripped the stubby control stick in one hand while adjusting the throttle setting with the other.
The silica is combined with sodium oxide flux and calcium oxide stabilizer.