Plant VS factory

0 The difference is that plant is used for car industries and in electricity, power, even I think water productions. 0-

0I got this quick definition-- make of it what you will: 02br
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00'Factory (noun): a plant consisting of buildings with facilities for manufacturing.' 02br
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00I have an idea that although they can both be the same thing (with different collocations in different industries as LL says), 'factory', as fixed assets, can be more concrete t

0 I have found another definitions which you can use. 02br
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00Plant - the assets of a business including land, buildings, machinery and all equipment permanently employed. 02br
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00Factory - building in which products are manufactured; any location which mass-produces one type of product (can be used figuratively) 02br
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Plant is a combination of Processes(involving a vast Chemical Change) where there may not be any apparent indication of the Input Materials, vs the Output. Power plant (say Thermal of Fossil Fuel) has an Input of Coal and Water basically. But the output is Electricity, which has no apparent link with Input. Same with Steel Plant. Input is Iron Ore, Manganese, Coke(Coal) etc, whereas output is Meta

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