The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fluidize \Flu"id*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fluidized; p. pr. & vb. n. Fluidizing.] To render fluid.
Wiktionary
vb. To give particles of solid the properties of a fluid, either by shaking or by injecting gas
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "fluidize".
Currently, however, thanks to Pierre Celsus, the rage had now become that lovely child of the petroleum refinery, the fluidized reaction, in which hot gases having composition A streamed up through a turbulent mass of tiny catalyst particles, while simultaneously suspending that mass, to emerge at the top of the bed with composition B.
During the entire previous year, there had not been a single fluidized experiment at Hope.
The minority that he would force to continue on their old projects would probably be apologetic to the lucky ones launching into the new fluidized techniques.
In the existing setup the necessary heat cannot be supplied through the reactor walls because of the low heat transfer coefficient available for a fluidized system.
This vaporizes the ammonia, so we just use the resulting vapor ammonia as the combination fluidizing and reaction vapor.
Maybe it was the fluidized air of the Clinitron, maybe it was the simple act of lying next to another human being-she didn't know the reason-but she never slept better than when she slept here.
Maybe it was the fluidized air of the Clinitron, maybe it was the simple act of lying next to another human being—she didn’t know the reason—but she never slept better than when she slept here.
The last confrontation of this kind had involved the Antarctic Pipeline - that miracle of twenty-first-century engineering, built to pump fluidized coal from the vast polar deposits to the power plants and factories of the world.
Inside the great white cube of the project building Roger lay, spread-eagled on a fluidized bed.
When the divers have got all of that pipe bolted on, which will take a week or so, they will make their way down the line with a water jet that works by fluidizing the seabed beneath it, turning it into quicksand.
To us, there was not much question about it: the most important link in all the complex interrelationships of mind and matter that an earlier generation of scientists had called Gaia was right there, floating on its fluidized bed, looking like the star of a Japanese horror flick.