How to Use extruder in a Sentence

extruder

noun
  • The speed and the shape of the extruder help determine the hardness of the ice.
    Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 11 May 2023
  • The team fed the paste into an extruder that pressed it into a preformed mold with shapes such as a disc or tiny gear.
    Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 8 Apr. 2021
  • Then the plastic goes through an extruder machine, which spins and pulls it like taffy to turn it into yarn.
    Medea Giordano, WIRED, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Soy protein is first exposed to heat, solvent, or acid, before it is reshaped with a food extruder [1].
    Catherine Hu, Discover Magazine, 12 May 2015
  • Then, too, it was not made with an ordinary food extruder, like most meat substitutes on the market today.
    Douglas Heingartner, IEEE Spectrum, 2 June 2018
  • After bourbon ball dough is mixed in a giant mixer, it's fed into an extruder, which cuts it with a wire into perfect spheres.
    Dahlia Ghabour, The Courier-Journal, 7 Feb. 2022
  • Manufacturers take wood pulp, dissolve it in a chemical solvent, then push it through an extruder to form the fibers.
    Lexie Sachs, Good Housekeeping, 12 Aug. 2022
  • The monomers are extracted and polymerized, until plastic oozes out of the extruder, and with some molding, your Boba Fett is born—but his journey has just begun.
    Paul Ford, Wired, 23 June 2020
  • Electric extruders operate by extruding the pasta dough from a dough chamber and then kneading and cutting the pasta on its own.
    Michelle Love, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Sep. 2023
  • The system shreds plastic bottles into strips that are fed into an extruder, which melts them into strands that can be reused as filament in 3D printers.
    Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 July 2022
  • Workers in another, equally hot room fed the shreds into an extruder, which pumped out little gray pellets known as nurdles.
    Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
  • The state-of-the-art extruder, manufactured in Italy, creates sheets that can be converted into boxes, trays and totes for commercial customers.
    Star Tribune, 12 Dec. 2020
  • After mixing and resting, a mechanical extruder pushes the dough through dies of different shapes, and then it’s cut at set intervals.
    Daniela Galarza, Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2023
  • For colors like the red of the Mission to Mars model and the Neptune blue, the feedstock is given additional passes through the extruder to compound the material more densely and fix a higher degree of pigmentation.
    Tim Barber, Wired, 18 July 2022
  • To skirt that limitation, in 2019 the Getty purchased its own plasticmaking equipment: an extruder and injection-molding system.
    Sam Kean, Science | AAAS, 2 July 2021
  • Minnesota Diversified Industries, a nonprofit plastics manufacturer that provides employment opportunities for people with disabilities, is adding a polypropylene extruder to its Grand Rapids facility.
    Star Tribune, 12 Dec. 2020

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