Processing medium
In industrial engineering, a procesing medium is a gaseous, vaporous, fluid or shapeless solid material that plays an active role in manufacturing processes - comparable to that of a tool.
Examples
A processing medium for washing is a soap solution, a processing medium for steel melting is a plasma, and a processing medium for steam drying is superheated steam.
Synonyms
- Operating medium
- Working medium.
gollark: * lightspeed for data, sublight for matter
gollark: * sublight
gollark: One problematic possibility is that FTL is impossible and we're stuck moving around at light speed.
gollark: Probably not, FTL is problematic.
gollark: But you can still destroy cities, which is still pretty problematic.
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