(chemistry) A water-cooled, double walled piece of laboratory glassware that is fitted on top of a vessel of boiling liquid such that vapour condenses and flows back into the vessel, preventing the contents from boiling dry.

(steam engine) An injection condenser in which the steam is condensed by a spray of water which mingles with it.

(physics) Any form of matter, such as a solid or liquid, in which there are strong interactions between neighbouring atoms

(archaic) compressed air

plural of condensed milk

A condenser for a steam engine, in which the vacuum is maintained by the downward flow of water through a tall vertical pipe.

plural of reflux condenser

plural of Abbe condenser

A condenser composed of two lenses which concentrates and controls the light which passes through an examined specimen before that light enters the objective of a microscope, used to obtain high levels of magnification.

(chemistry) A simplified structural formula that does not show the individual atoms' relative position in space