catalytic cracker

noun

: the unit in a petroleum refinery in which cracking is carried out in the presence of a catalyst

Examples of catalytic cracker in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

But about 20 years later, Houdry read about Haagy’s discovery of the cause-effect between cars and smog, and turned his talent to inventing a catalytic converter process, essentially undoing his catalytic cracker and scrubbing pollution from gasoline. —Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1947, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for catalytic cracker

• acker
• backer
• blacker
• hacker
• lacquer
• packer
• slacker
• stacker
• thacker
• tracker
• attacker
• backpacker