Condenser
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Condenser may refer to:
- Abbe condenser, a group of lenses mounted below the stage of an optical microscope to concentrate light
- Condenser (steam turbine), a shell and tube heat exchanger installed in thermal power stations
- condenser microphone, a device to record air waves into an electrical signal
- synchronous condenser, a rotating machine similar to a motor, used to control AC power flow on an electric power transmission
- Liebig condenser, a glass tube surrounded by a water jacket used to cool hot vapors
- Allihn condenser, similar to a Liebig condenser but a series of large and small constrictions on the inside tube
- Graham condenser, a large glass tube containing a hollow glass coil running its entire length used to cool hot vapors
- Dimroth condenser, a Graham condenser where the coil doubles up, returning to where it started
- Friedrich condenser, a large, spiraled cold finger
- Vigreux condenser, which has has many indentations in the glass
- Steam locomotive condensing apparatus fitted to steam locomotives which worked in tunnels
- In electronics, a now-obsolete term for a capacitor