a product which occurs during petrol production and which is the result of a hydrocarbon reforming process
reformate in American English
(rɪˈfɔrmeit, -mɪt)
noun
Chemistry
the product of the reforming process
Word origin
[1945–50; reform + -ate1]This word is first recorded in the period 1945–50. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: beeper, on-line, poison pill, spin-off, taxi squad-ate is a suffix occurring in loanwords from Latin, its English distribution parallelingthat of Latin. The form originated as a suffix added to a- stem verbs to form adjectives (separate). The resulting form could also be used independently as a noun (advocate) and came to be used as a stem on which a verb could be formed (separate; advocate; agitate). In English the use as a verbal suffix has been extended to stems of non-Latin origin(calibrate; acierate)
Examples of 'reformate' in a sentence
reformate
Rhodium was responsible for higher hydrogen yields in the logistic fuel reformate.
Abdul-Majeed Azad, Desikan Sundararajan 2011, 'A Phenomenological Study on the Synergistic Role of Precious Metals in the Steam Reformingof Logistic Fuels on Bimetal-Supported Catalysts', Advances in Materials Science and Engineeringhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/496038. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)