prill
/prɪl/
verb
- To form or shape into small pellets or beads.
- Farmers often prill ammonium nitrate to make it easier to spread on fields.
- The chemist learned how to prill the compound for safer handling.
- The factory uses a special machine to prill the molten sulfur into solid beads.
noun
- A small pellet or bead of a substance, especially a solid chemical or metal.
- The fertilizer came in the form of tiny white prills that dissolved easily in water.
- Workers poured the molten metal into a cooling tower to form small prills.
- Each prill of the catalyst was perfectly round and uniform in size.
- A small, round piece of something, like a tiny ball or granule.
- The soil was mixed with prills of clay to improve drainage.
- She noticed prills of salt on the surface of the pretzel.
- The birdseed contained prills of corn and sunflower hearts.