Pellet vs Prill - What's the difference?
pellet | prill |
A small, compressed, hard chunk of matter.
A lead projectile used as ammunition in rifled air guns.
Compressed byproduct of digestion regurgitated by owls. Serves as a waste disposal mechanism for indigestible parts of food, such as fur and bones.
(heraldiccharge) A roundel sable (black circular spot; also called ogress).
a pellet, a granule, a small bead
*2000 , R. R. Fullwood, Probabilistic Safety Assessment in the Chemical and Nuclear Industries ,
*:Prills are free-flowing pellets developed for fertilizer as a coarse product with little setting tendency that can be spread easily and smoothly.
*2007 , Stan A. David, Trends in Welding Research: Proceedings of the 7Th International , page 661
*:The resulting solution is evaporated and converted into prills , i.e. dense flakes or grains, of solid ammonium nitrate.
rich copper ore remaining after removal of low-grade material; a droplet of copper suspended in molten slag
(mining) A nugget of virgin metal.
The button of metal from an assay.
to produce pellets by forming a molten substance into droplets which solidify while falling
As nouns the difference between pellet and prill
is that pellet is a small, compressed, hard chunk of matter while prill is a rill, a small stream.As verbs the difference between pellet and prill
is that pellet is to form into pellets while prill is to flow, spurt.pellet
English
Noun
(en noun)- a pellet of wood, paper, or ore
Synonyms
*(to form into pellets) pelletize ----prill
English
Etymology 1
A variant of purl, 17th century.Etymology 2
Origin unknown. OED mentions Cornish pryl "sheep-droppings" as a likely loan from English.Noun
(wikipedia prill) (en noun)page 275
