English Explanatory Dictionary

Glover's tower

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A large tower or chamber used in the manufacture of sulfuric acid, to condense the crude acid and to deliver concentrated acid charged with nitrous fumes. These fumes, as a catalyst, effect the conversion of sulfurous to sulfuric acid.

Word forms

Glover's tower Glover's towers

Etymology

Invented in 1859 by John Glover.

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