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One who reforms, or who works for reform.
- Among the frontrunners before the conclave began were Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s secretary of state; Luis Antonio Tagle, a reformer from the Philippines; Péter Erdő, a traditionalist from Hungary; Robert Sarah, a cardinal from Guinea who
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One who was involved in the Reformation.historical
- […] for I long to ſee a larke without a creaſt, and would travaile farre to diſcoover a reformer without a fault, […]
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A device which converts hydrocarbons into a hydrogen-rich mixture of gases.
- The fuel reformer works somewhat like catalytic converters in cars. In the gasoline reformer, vaporized gasoline is mixed with steam and air before traveling through a cylinder packed with the new Argonne catalyst. The result is a hydrogen-
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A device used to convert petroleum refinery naphthas, typically having low octane ratings, into high-octane liquid products called reformates.
- Deisohexanizer bottoms are routed to the continuous reformer, where the octane of the stream is upgraded chiefly by conversion of naphthenes and paraffins to high octane aromatic compounds.
ant. traditionalist