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• papin's digester — see digester 4 …   Useful english dictionary

• Papin, Denis — ▪ British physicist born Aug. 22, 1647, Blois, Fr. died c. 1712, , London, Eng.  French born British physicist who invented the pressure cooker and suggested the first cylinder and piston steam engine. Though his design was not practical, it was… …   Universalium

• PAPIN, DENIS —    French physicist, born at Blois, practised medicine at Angers; came to England and assisted Boyle in his experiments, made a special study of the expansive power of steam and its motive power, invented a steam digester with a safety valve,… …   The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

• Steam digester — [ Denis Papin s steam digester (1679)] The steam digester (or bone digester, and also known as Papin’s digester) is a high pressure cooker invented by French physicist Denis Papin in 1679. It is a device for extracting fats from bones in a high… …   Wikipedia

• Denis Papin — Denis Papin, unknown artist, 1689. Born 22 August 1647 Chitenay (presen …   Wikipedia

• Denis Papin — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Papin. Denis Papin …   Wikipédia en Français

• pressure cooker — 1. a reinforced pot, usually of steel or aluminum, in which soups, meats, vegetables, etc., may be cooked quickly in heat above boiling point by steam maintained under pressure. 2. any situation, job, assignment, etc., in which a person is faced… …   Universalium

• High altitude cooking — is the opposite of pressure cooking in that the boiling point of water will be lower at higher altitudes due to the decreased air pressure. This lower temperature results in a lowered boiling point of water and may require an increase in cooking… …   Wikipedia

• Urinator — Denis Papin Pour les articles homonymes, voir Papin. Denis Papin …   Wikipédia en Français

• autoclave — /aw teuh klayv /, n., v., autoclaved, autoclaving. n. 1. a heavy vessel for conducting chemical reactions under high pressure. 2. See pressure cooker. 3. Med., Bacteriol. an apparatus in which steam under pressure effects sterilization. v.t. 4.… …   Universalium

• Scientific revolution — This article is about a period in the history of science. For the process of scientific progress via revolution, proposed by Thomas Kuhn, see Paradigm shift …   Wikipedia