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scrubber definition

scrub·ber (skrub′ər)

noun

anything that scrubs or is used for scrubbing: specif., an apparatus that cleans the gases passing through a smokestack of a coal-burning power plant

Etymology: scrub + -er

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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