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noun
- 1. a pellet or solid globule of a substance formed by the congealing of a liquid during an industrial process: "the consistency of fertilizer prills has a major effect on nitrogen application"
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noun. : a pellet made by prilling. Examples of prill in a Sentence. Recent Examples on the Web. Noun. Products applied dry, like the round pellets (also called prills ), tend to be time-release by design and leach their nutrients gradually to provide fertilization for weeks or months.
A prill is a small aggregate or globule of a material, most often a dry sphere, formed from a melted liquid through spray crystallization. Prilled is a term used in mining and manufacturing to refer to a product that has been pelletized .
Prill is a noun or verb that means a small, beadlike pellet or to make a substance into prills. It is an informal term from Cornwall and has no known origin.
Prill definition: to convert (a material) into a granular free-flowing form. See examples of PRILL used in a sentence.
Prilling is a process that transforms a molten stream into spherical particles, called prills, with a size between 500 and 4000 micrometers. Prills are widely used in the chemical industry, especially in fertilizer production, because of their free-flowing and safe properties.
Noun. Singular: prill. Plural: prills. Origin of Prill. Origin unknown. OED mentions Cornish pryl "sheep-droppings" as a likely loan from English.
Prill is a verb meaning to convert a material into a granular free-flowing form, or a noun for the resulting material. It is derived from a Cornish copper-mining term of obscure origin.
