Word: frother
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...Obscure machinery. What was the last time you used a cheese grater, a hand-whisk, an egg-boiler, an espresso-maker, a milk-frother, a pressure-cooker? The delights of modern engineering never cease to amaze me. Having lived with only microwaves, hot plates, refrigerators and plastic utensils, I find myself constructing elaborate meals (nine-story cakes, boiled eggs and espresso with frothy milk) to use as many of these marvels in three days as possible...
...flotation process, ores are first ground to powder and mixed with a frother. This is an oil or an acid which attaches itself to some powder particles but not to others. Then the ores are dumped into water and stirred (usually by compressed...