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cooling tower

device which extracts waste heat to the atmosphere through the cooling of a water stream
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Summary

cooling tower is a nonbiological component[1]. It draws 4,043 Wikipedia views per month (nonbiological component category, ranking #1 of 5).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: hyperboloid structure[3], tower[4], heat exchanger[5]
  • Part of: chemical plant[6], thermal power station[7]
  • Has use: heating, ventilation, and air conditioning[8], oil refining[9]
  • Commons category: Cooling towers[10]
  • Has part(s): chiller[11]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Cooling towers[12]
  • OpenStreetMap tag: tower:type=cooling[13], man_made=cooling_tower[14]
  • Shape: hyperboloid[15]
  • Different from: cool store[16]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[17]

Why It Matters

cooling tower has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] It is known by 61 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [19] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 7w ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14692 → ['Q5568', 'Q6950']
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48943|batch #48943]]: Add OSM wiki item IDs to items with matching OSM tags"
  2. 13w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → ['4LRSkP', '1bafm0']
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  3. 14w ago · EmausBot bot · 2026-07-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Thésaurus de la désignation des œuvres architecturales et des espaces aménagés id → 978
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ Added: [[new:कुलिङ टावर]]"
  4. 20w ago · Rémi sim · 2026-05-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Thésaurus de la désignation des œuvres architecturales et des espaces aménagés id → 978
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Thésaurus de la désignation des œuvres architecturales et des espaces aménagés id: T96-978, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/42483271|tour de réfrigération (#424"
  5. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → nonbiological component
    Part of → chemical plant, thermal power station
    On focus list of wikimedia project → Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
    Part of → —
    + 10 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007562861705171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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