Prill vs Pastille - What's the difference?
prill | pastille |
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
A soft flavoured candy.
A medicinal pill, originally compressed herbs. A throat pastille is a large candy-like lozenge, which, when sucked, releases oils to soothe a sore throat and sometimes vapors to help unblock the nose or sinuses.
A small granular half spheroid piece of material.
As nouns the difference between prill and pastille
is that prill is a rill, a small stream or prill can be a pellet, a granule, a small bead or prill can be the brill, a kind of flatfish while pastille is .As a verb prill
is to flow, spurt or prill can be to produce pellets by forming a molten substance into droplets which solidify while falling.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